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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... 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 ...
... Methods Field methods Field mapping Instrumental levelling Remote sensing Aerial photography Satellite imagery Radar Sonar and seismic sensing Digital elevation/terrain modelling Glacial landforms Extent of ice cover Geomorphological ...
... methods ELA/FLA method Periglacial landforms Palaeoclimatic inferences based on periglacial evidence Rock glaciers Pingos and palsas Pronival ('protalus') ramparts Sealevel change Relative and 'absolute' sealevel changes Eustatic ...
... methods Sediment sections Coring Laboratory methods Particle size measurements Particle shape Surface textures of quartz particles 3.2.3.4 3.2.3.5 3.2.3.6 3.2.3.7 3.2.3.8 3.2.3.9 3.3 3.3.1 3.3.2 3.3.2.1.
... method (eigenvalues) to characterize clast fabrics obtained from diamictons Particle size distributions (cumulative frequency curves) showing ... methods for representing till fabric data 3.19 3.20 3.21 3.22 3.23 3.24 3.25 3.26 3.27 3.28.
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