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 sheets and glaciers during the last cold stage Northern Europe Britain and Ireland North America Direction of ... 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.
... ice sheet a) The Late Weichselian Laurentide, Cordilleran and Innuitian ice sheet at the LGM. b) Reconstructed ice lobes in the Great Lakes region at the LGM. c) The pattern of retreat moraines of the MichiganHuron lobe after the LGM ...
... ice sheet Model simulations of a) basal ice temperature and b) horizontal basal velocity of the last British Ice sheet during the LGM Four numerical simulation models of the ice sheets over North America at the LGM Reconstruction of the ...
J. John Lowe, Michael J.C Walker. ice sheet in the late 1950s, and was followed in the 1960s by the drilling of the first deep polar ice core to bedrock at Camp Century, Greenland (Dansgaard et al., 1969). Subsequently, long continuous ...
... ice sheet behaviour (Siegert & Dowdeswell, 2004), glacioisostatic effects (Peltier, 2002), oceanographical changes (Weber et al., 2007), past vegetation dynamics (Claussen, 2009) and human migrations (Mithen & Reed, 2002). Some of the ...
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