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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... oxygen isotope record Correlation between continental, marine and ice core records Longterm correlation on Milankovitch timescales Correlation on subMilankovitch timescales 6.3.3.3 6.4 7 7.1 7.2 7.2.1 7.2.2 7.2.3 7.2.4 7.2.5.
... long term status Spatial patterns of inferred effective moisture for six timeslices between the BollingAllerod period and the present time a) Carbonate δ 18 O records from eight lake sediment sequences from the Indian Monsoon region. b ...
... longterm climatic changes. As we emphasise throughout the book, cuttingedge Quaternary research involves scientists from a range of different backgrounds, and it is now commonplace to find research collaborations in which oceanographers ...
... long term climatic cycle (see below), and hence to consider this as part of the Pleistocene. However, the Holocene is now widely accepted as a separate unit because of the importance in the present interglacial of the evolution of the ...
... longterm high latitude cooling that began in the Late Miocene (Maslin et al., 1998). In the geological column, therefore, the Pliocene–Pleistocene (or Neogene– Quaternary) boundary cannot be drawn simply on the basis of direct ...
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