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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... ocean sediment record General principles Glacial ice storage and the marine oxygen isotope record Ice volumes, sea ... ocean water Carbonate dissolution and diagenesis Carbon isotopes in marine sediments Icecore stratigraphy A brief ...
... Ocean east of the Maldives Platform. b) A stacked record of Core MD9009643 and ODP core 677 from the eastern equatorial Pacific The last four terminations in different proxy records A time–distance diagram showing the onset and end of ...
... ocean conveyor' Crosssection of the Atlantic Ocean basin showing thermal stratification, principal flows and surface heat exchange Schematic model of three dominant types of Atlantic circulation that recurred throughout the last cold ...
... ocean drilling vessel that can recover cores from the sea floor in water depths of up to 5,980 m. It is equipped with drilling apparatus capable of extracting cores from soft and hard sediment, as well as from rock. The core barrels ...
... ocean. Prior to the Second World War, only short sediment cores (less than 1 m in length) could be raised from the sea bed. The development of a piston corer by the Swedish oceanographer Börje Kullenberg heralded the modern phase of ...
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Reconstructing Quaternary Environments John Lowe,Mike Walker,Mike J. C. Walker Aucun aperçu disponible - 2014 |
Reconstructing Quaternary Environments J. John Lowe,Mike Walker,Mike J. C. Walker Aucun aperçu disponible - 2014 |