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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... Glacigenic facies The classification of tills Lodgement, meltout and 'flow' tills Deformation tills Paraglacial deposits The influence of the thermal regime of glacier ice Analysis of glacigenic sequences Particle size and shape ...
... glacigenic sediments in Wales Idealized lithofacies associations for glacigenic sediment sequences developed under different thermal regimes The giant quartzite erratic ('The Big Rock') near Okotoks, southwest Alberta, Canada a ...
... glacigenic sequence Sequence of sedimentary units deposited near continental margins during cycles of sealevel fall and rise Various types of biozone used in the subdivision and correlation of strata Schematic diagram showing a series ...
... southern Spain Principal descriptive criteria used in defining lithofacies in glacigenic sequences Conventional hierarchy of chronostratigraphic and geochronological units Preface to the third edition Looking again at the Preface.
... glacigenic deposits ('Drift Border'), and by 1878, a map had been produced of the southern margin of the glaciated area between Cape Cod and North Dakota. Similar investigations of glacial drift cover and end moraines were underway in ...
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Reconstructing Quaternary Environments John Lowe,Mike Walker,Mike J. C. Walker Aucun aperçu disponible - 2014 |
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