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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... modern Lake Chad, Palaeolake MegaChad, and the Chad drainage catchment a) Hydroisostatic deformation of the ... presentday dust circulation in Australia Linear trends of crests of sand dunes in Egypt's Western Desert Remotely sensed ...
... Presentday European distributions of four coleopteran species found in Lateglacial deposits at the site of Glanllynnau, north Wales Schematic representation of the mutual climatic range method of quantitative temperature reconstructions ...
... present day. In the 1990s when the second edition of Reconst ructing Quaternary Environments was in preparation, the Quaternary community was still coming to terms with the implications for global palaeoceanography and palaeoclimatology ...
... present day. During the last interglacial in Britain around 120 ka, 1 for example, hippopotamuses swam in the River Thames, while lions and elephants roamed the present site of Trafalgar Square in central London! What makes the ...
... present day (Pillans, 2004). As we shall see, this major shift in the earth's climatic rhythm, centred on c. 2.6 Ma, appears to have been driven by variations in the earth's orbit and axis (section 1.6), and involved a change in pacing ...
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