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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... last cold stage Northern Europe Britain and Ireland North America Direction of ice movement Striations Friction cracks Icemoulded (streamlined) bedrock Streamlined glacial deposits Reconstruction of former ice masses Ice sheet modelling ...
... last cold stage deposits from the site of St Front, France Relative pollen diagram showing variations in abundance of principal taxa in a lake sediment sequence at Ioannina, northwest Greece Pollen concentration diagram for some of the ...
... last cold stage Stable isotopic records spanning the last glacial cycle from Antarctica, aligned with the NGRIP isotopic record from Greenland Synchronization of isotopic records from Antarctic and NGRIP ice cores between 10 and 52 ka ...
... end of the Last Cold Stage (c. 8,000–15,000 years ago). More recently (2010–14), however, INTIMATE has become a research group within the European Union COST Initiative programme, with a panglobal remit and a temporal range extending ...
... cold periods, with the buildup of major continental ice sheets and the expansion of mountain glaciers in many parts of the world. However, these cold or glacial stages ... last interglacial in Britain around 120 ka, 1 for example, ...
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