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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... profiles through the bestpreserved suite of the terrace staircase of a) the Middle Thames (c. 35 km west of London) and b) the Lower Thames (c. 15 km east of London) Schematic representation of the Thames drainage system a) prior to, b ...
... profile exposed at the Lantian section, near Xi'an in the southern part of the Loess Plateau The Loess Plateau, major deserts and mountain regions of north central China Loess–palaeosol succession at Baoji, in the southern Loess Plateau ...
... profiles through five Greenland ice cores Subsample of a pollen assemblage typical of last cold stage deposits from the site of St Front, France Relative pollen diagram showing variations in abundance of principal taxa in a lake ...
... profile of crossmatched treering series from Finnish Lapland for the period AD 1200–160 BC Standardization of ringwidth measurements to generate ring width indices Ancient bristlecone pines growing in the White Mountains of California a ...
... profile and the obliquity signal in the EPICA Dome C ice core over the past 800 ka Milankovitch insolation record for the past 800 ka a), compared with temperature b), CO 2 c) and dust profiles d) from the EPICA 7.14 7.15 7.16 7.17 7.18 ...
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