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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... ratios in cave speleothem Trace elements in cave speleothem Speleothem formation and sealevel variations Speleothem formation and tectonic activity Speleothem formation and rates of denudation Other carbonate deposits Lake, mire and bog ...
... ratios during times of glacial maxima and interglacial high sealevel stands Schematic representation of oxygen isotope variations for the past 600 ka Comparison between estimates of sealevel variations for the last 140 ka based on ...
... ratios of five amino acids measured in fossil terrestrial ostracods from central and southern Spain Principal descriptive criteria used in defining lithofacies in glacigenic sequences Conventional hierarchy of chronostratigraphic and ...
... ratios (termed δ 18 O) in the atmosphere, seas, groundwater and ice are often controlled by oceanographic or climatic conditions. Sapropels are darkcoloured marine sediments rich in organic matter that develop during periods of reduced ...
... pressure, rate and type of ice flow, and basal shear stress variations (Mooers, 1989). Numerous shape indices have been developed using axial and outline ratios (Briner, 2007; Hess & Briner, 2009) that enable comparisons to be made.
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