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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... processes expanded and contracted. In lowlatitude regions, the desert and savannah margins shifted through several degrees of latitude as phases of aridity alternated with episodes of higher precipitation. Throughout the world ...
... processes. Hence, estimated rates of delta construction, cliff retreat, stream dissection, weathering rates and degree of soil development were all used to assess the duration of Quaternary episodes. The first, and for many years the ...
... processes and, in mid and high latitudes, by glacial erosion. In parts of the deep oceans of the world, however, sediments have been accumulating in a relatively undisturbed manner for thousands, or even millions, of years, and ...
... processes. Undoubtedly the most spectacular manifestations of climatic change were the great continental ice sheets whose passage resulted in widespread modification of the land surface of midand highlatitude regions. The growth and ...
... processes and landforms. Moreover, it must be emphasized that there is frequently a close relationship between ... process of ground survey using manually operated instruments. The latter have not yet been entirely superseded, however ...
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