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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... ice movement Striations Friction cracks Icemoulded (streamlined) bedrock Streamlined glacial deposits Reconstruction of former ice masses Ice sheet modelling 2.3.4.2 2.3.5 2.3.5.1 2.3.5.2 2.4 2.4.1 2.4.1.1 2.4.1.2 2.4.1.3 2.5.
... former glacier elevations Cirque floor altitude (CFA) and toeto headwall (THAR) methods ELA/FLA method Periglacial landforms Palaeoclimatic inferences based on periglacial evidence Rock glaciers Pingos and palsas Pronival ('protalus ...
... former climate; etc.) and, as a consequence, are equally arbitrary. Moreover, for historical reasons, it is not always possible to avoid the traditional terminology when referring to certain named Quaternary stages. For convenience ...
... former river terraces may be preserved in a particular area, and it may be impossible to identify and correlate fragments of similar age, and to establish a chronology of terrace development on the basis of field mapping alone. By ...
... former ice sheet or glacier surfaces, and to allow former ice volumes to be estimated. Comparisons with presentday glaciers, particularly those where a close relationship has been established between glacier behaviour and climatic ...
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