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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... Loess stratigraphy Midlatitude sand belts (coversands) Lowlatitude 'sand seas' Windblown sediments and palaeoenvironmental reconstructions Lakelevel records from lowlatitude regions Introduction Pluvial lake sediment sequences Lakelevel ...
... loess units and soil horizons exposed at the Luochuan site on the Loess Plateau, China. b) The S1 (last interglacial) soil profile exposed at the Lantian section, near Xi'an in the southern part of the Loess Plateau The Loess Plateau ...
... loess and palaeosol succession at Weinan, China Variations in species richness, abundance, diversity and habitat types in Holocene tufa sequences at Courteenhall, near Northampton, UK Examples of some common marine bivalves of the North ...
... loess sequence at Luochuan on the Loess Plateau, Central China a) Yellow and black tephra layers exposed in a soil–peat complex in Iceland. b) The North Atlantic Ash Zone 2 tephra layer preserved in the NGRIP ice core. c) Fluted distal ...
... loess–palaeosol units preserved at the Baoji site on the Loess Plateau, China, plotted against the marine oxygen isotope record Matching of marine sediments in core ENAM93–21 from the northeast Atlantic Ocean with the GRIP δ 18 O ...
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