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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... proxy records A time–distance diagram showing the onset and end of glaciation at sites at increasing distance from the icedispersal centre Different ways of defining the onset of an interglacial Stratigraphic subdivision of a Quaternary ...
... proxy for temperature fluctuations, in the NGRIP ice core Terrestrial dust flux and sealevel reconstruction for the period 36–64 ka BP based on analysis of proxy records obtained from core GeoTüKL11 in the Red Sea Schematic ...
... proxy records arranged in 30° latitude bands Hypothesized chain of events during the Last Termination Quantified palaeotemperature records for the Lateglacial and early Holocene from Scotland and Norway aligned using tephra isochrons ...
... Proxy records for the 8.2 ka event Proxy records for the 4.2 ka event Solar activity throughout the Holocene Comparing historical reconstructions of nearglobal land temperatures ('CRUTEM4') with Callendar (1938) and Callendar (1961) ...
... proxy records for former climate; etc.) and, as a consequence, are equally arbitrary. Moreover, for historical reasons, it is not always possible to avoid the traditional terminology when referring to certain named Quaternary stages ...
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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 |