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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... range of diagnostic features used in fossil identification A coleopteran record from the Lateglacial site of Llanilid, south Wales, UK Number of obligate beetle species recorded in Holocene sediment sequences from southern and central ...
... glacialinterglacial cycle. TABLES. The Wentworth scale of particle size fractions and the equivalent φ (phi) units Range of air temperature thresholds for the formation of selected 3.3 4.1 4.2 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 6.1.
... range of spatial scales, and over a series of time intervals that become progressively shorter as we approach the present day. In the 1990s when the second edition of Reconst ructing Quaternary Environments was in preparation, the ...
... range extending back to 60,000 years ago. Many colleagues have been active in both research groups and, while some are no longer with us (most notably Bernd Becker, Gerard Bond, Russell Coope, Sigfus Johnsen, KlausFelix Kaiser, Nick ...
... range of Quaternary time, the world may have experienced more than fifty cold or glacial stages and a corresponding number of temperate or interglacial periods (Lisiecki & Raymo, 2005). Figure 1.1 The Quaternary relative to the ...
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