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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... Examples of planktonic foraminiferal species widely employed in Quaternary palaeocean studies Relative sealevel curves for the last 12 ka for the Western Mediterranean based on benthic Foraminiferabased transfer functions a) Examples of ...
... example), and it will be employed in this way throughout this book. Indeed, it is possible that, in due course, the Tertiary may also be reinstated along with the Quaternary as a formal period within the geological timescale (Knox et al ...
... example on Seasat and the ERS satellites (see above). A new phase in SAR began in 2007 with the launch of the TerraSARX satellite, a joint project between the German Aerospace Centre and EADS Astrium, an aerospace subsidiary of the ...
... example, icedirectional indicators such as drumlins, fluted moraines, drift lineations and striations, in association with evidence from glacial erratics and till provenance studies (section 3.3), enable the principal flow lines of the ...
... example, by altering basal shear stress values, the resulting simulated ice sheet might be independent from (Figure 2.17b) or confluent with (Figure 2.17a) the Scandinavian ice sheet. But simply using icemarginal evidence to constrain ...
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