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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... precipitation. Throughout the world, weathering rates and pedogenic processes varied with changes in temperature and precipitation, river regimes fluctuated markedly, sea levels rose and fell over a vertical range of c. 150 m, and plant ...
... precipitation, and contain a range of proxy indicators (oxygen isotopes, trace gases, chemical compounds, particulate matter) of past atmospheric and climatic conditions. Icecore data not only provide a temporal framework for Late ...
... precipitation over tropical Africa. Other causal factors of decadal to millennialscale climatic changes include shortterm fluctuations in radiatively active atmospheric trace gases (greenhouse gases), most notably CO 2 , CH 4 , N 2 O ...
... precipitation, evaporation and water cycle data; and Aura (EOS CH–1: 2004) studies ozone, air quality and climatic variables. Several satellites carry instruments that focus on particular earth surface or atmospheric properties. These ...
... precipitation (Nesje et al., 2008). But throughout the high mountain areas of Norway and Sweden, there is abundant evidence for renewed glacier activity after that time. This consists of 'fresh' and relatively unvegetated terminal and ...
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