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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... fossil record The taphonomy of Quaternary fossil assemblages The interpretation of Quaternary fossil assemblages Pollen analysis Introduction The nature of pollen and spores Field and laboratory work Pollen diagrams The interpretation ...
... fossil vertebrate assemblages Cave and fissure deposits Lacustrine sediments Fluvial sediments Quaternary vertebrate records Vertebrate biostratigraphy Vertebrate biogeography Vertebrate fossils and Quaternary environments Vertebrate ...
... fossil identification A coleopteran record from the Lateglacial site of Llanilid, south Wales, UK Number of obligate beetle species recorded in Holocene sediment sequences from southern and central England Presentday European ...
... fossil evidence or in some other climatic proxy. In geology, all formal chronostratigraphic units and the boundaries between them are defined on the basis of type/reference sections or stratotypes, also known as Global Boundary ...
... fossil mammals and birds, and of his contemporary, William Buckland, who not only carried out some of the earliest detailed investigations and analyses of vertebrate assemblages in cave sites, but was one of the first British converts ...
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Reconstructing Quaternary Environments John Lowe,Mike Walker,Mike J. C. Walker Aucun aperçu disponible - 2014 |
Reconstructing Quaternary Environments J. John Lowe,Mike Walker,Mike J. C. Walker Aucun aperçu disponible - 2014 |