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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... interglacial high sealevel stands Schematic representation of oxygen isotope variations for the past 600 ka Comparison between estimates of sealevel variations for the last 140 ka based on marine isotopic and coral reef records Location ...
... at increasing distance from the icedispersal centre Different ways of defining the onset of an interglacial Stratigraphic subdivision of a Quaternary sedimentary sequence 6.11 6.12 6.13 6.14 6.15 6.16 6.17 6.18 6.19 6.20.
... (interglacials) during which temperatures in the mid and highlatitude regions were occasionally higher than those of the present day. During the last interglacial in Britain around 120 ka, 1 for example, hippopotamuses swam in the River ...
... (interglacials) forming part of a long term climatic cycle (see below), and hence to consider this as part of the ... interglacial of the evolution of the human environment. Indeed, it is this anthropogenic signature that is the ...
... interglacial', and 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 ...
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