Reconstructing Quaternary EnvironmentsRoutledge, 28 oct. 2014 - 568 pages This third edition of Reconstructing Quaternary Environments has been completely revised and updated to provide a new account of the history and scale of environmental changes during the Quaternary. The evidence is extremely diverse ranging from landforms and sediments to fossil assemblages and geochemical data, and includes new data from terrestrial, marine and ice-core records. Dating methods are described and evaluated, while the principles and practices of Quaternary stratigraphy are also discussed. The volume concludes with a new chapter which considers some of the key questions about the nature, causes and consequences of global climatic and environmental change over a range of temporal scales. This synthesis builds on the methods and approaches described earlier in the book to show how a number of exciting ideas that have emerged over the last two decades are providing new insights into the operation of the global earth-ocean-atmosphere system, and are now central to many areas of contemporary Quaternary research. This comprehensive and dynamic textbook is richly illustrated throughout with full-colour figures and photographs. The book will be of interest to undergraduates, postgraduates and professionals in Earth Science, Environmental Science, Physical Geography, Geology, Botany, Zoology, Ecology, Archaeology and Anthropology |
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... evidence from lake sediments Lake sediments and landscape changes Lakelevel variations and climatic changes Lake sediments and palaeotemperatures Palaeoenvironmental evidence from mire and bog sediments Palaeoprecipitation records from ...
... evidence to c. 1.64 Ma (Aguirre & Pasini, 1985). Subsequent revision of the palaeomagnetic timescale using ocean core evidence, however, suggests an older age for the Olduvai event (section 5.5.1.2), and this has been confirmed by ...
... evidence for four separate glaciations in eastern England. The strata between the glacial deposits (drift) were referred to as 'interglacial', and hence the idea of oscillating warm ('interglacial') and cold ('glacial') episodes emerged ...
... evidence and the Glacial Theory when he deduced that crustal depression would result from the weight of the ice sheets and that uplift would follow deglaciation as the crust was free to rebound to its preglacial state. This was the ...
... evidence is like trying to assemble a jigsaw puzzle and then make sense of the picture when more than 90 per cent of the pieces are missing. This is because much of the evidence has been removed by subaerial weathering and erosional ...
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