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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... hence to consider this as part of the Pleistocene. However, the Holocene is now widely accepted as a separate unit because of the importance in the present interglacial of the evolution of the human environment. Indeed, it is this ...
... hence the idea of oscillating warm ('interglacial') and cold ('glacial') episodes emerged. By the end of the nineteenth century, drift sheets of four separate glaciations (the Nebraskan, Kansan, Illinoian and Wisconsinan), along with ...
... Hence, estimated rates of delta construction, cliff retreat, stream dissection, weathering rates and degree of soil development were all used to assess the duration of Quaternary episodes. The first, and for many years the only ...
... Hence, the palaeobotanical distinction between 'interglacial' and 'interstadial' becomes blurred by geographical province. Moreover, this terminology may even be misleading. In the British Isles, for instance, there is only fragmentary ...
... Hence, the marine oxygen isotope sequence provides a climatic signal of global significance. Twentytwo isotopic stages can be recognized in the past 880 ka or so (Lisiecki & Raymo, 2005), indicating that around ten or eleven glacials ...
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