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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... indicators Diatoms and pH Diatoms and trophic status Diatoms and the archaeological record Other environmental applications Plant macrofossil analysis Introduction The nature of plant macrofossils Field and laboratory work Data ...
... indicators of relative age Some applications of surface weathering dating Pedogenesis General principles Problems in using pedogenesis as a basis for dating Some applications of relative dating based on degree of pedogenesis ...
... indicators of former marine temperatures (section 4.7). The seminal works of Alfred Kennard, often in association with Bernard Woodward, in the later part of the nineteenth and early years of the twentieth century provided a similar ...
... indicators of changing directions of ice flow between successive glacial episodes (Clark, 1997). An additional complication in the interpretation of end moraine evidence is that it is frequently very difficult to distinguish between ...
... indicators now seems a doubtful procedure, although frictioncrack data often lend useful support to the reconstruction of regional iceflow patterns and past glacier activity based on other lines of evidence (Kelly et al., 2004). 2.3.3.3 ...
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