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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... landforms and sediments to fossil assemblages and geochemistry, and includes new data from terrestrial, marine and icecore records. Dating methods are described and evaluated, while the principles and practices of Quaternary ...
... landforms Extent of ice cover Geomorphological evidence and the extent of ice sheets and glaciers during the last cold stage Northern Europe Britain and Ireland North America Direction of ice movement Striations Friction cracks ...
... landforms Palaeoclimatic inferences based on periglacial evidence Rock glaciers Pingos and palsas Pronival ('protalus') ramparts Sealevel change Relative and 'absolute' sealevel changes Eustatic changes in sea level PreQuaternary ...
... landforms in low latitudes Pluvial lakes Dunefields Fluvial landforms Weathering crusts Conclusions Notes Lithological evidence Introduction Field and laboratory methods Sediment sections Coring Laboratory methods Particle size ...
... landforms, sediments, biological (including human) remains and assemblages of human artefacts. From this legacy, it is possible to reconstruct, often with great clarity and in considerable detail, the environmental conditions and ...
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