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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... Fluvial landforms Weathering crusts Conclusions Notes Lithological evidence Introduction Field and laboratory methods Sediment sections Coring Laboratory methods Particle size measurements Particle shape Surface textures of quartz ...
... Fluvial sediments Quaternary vertebrate records Vertebrate biostratigraphy Vertebrate biogeography Vertebrate fossils and Quaternary environments Vertebrate fossils and faunal evolution Other fossil groups Chrysophytes Cladocera Coral ...
... fluvial terraces Schematic representation of a sequence of river terraces in the valley of the Somme, France a) Average alluvial sedimentation rate for three catchments in southern Turkey over the past 6 ka. b) The number of settlements ...
... fluvial sediments at the site of Bosscherheide, Netherlands Classification of cryoturbation structures according to their form a) Mean annual temperature in northwest Europe during the 27– 20 k 14 Cyr BP interval. b) Mean annual ...
... fluvial and colluvial processes varied both spatially and temporally. On the global scale, sea level during the glacial phases was frequently more than 100 m lower but rose to positions above present levels during some of the ...
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