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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... Relative and 'absolute' sealevel changes Eustatic changes in sea level PreQuaternary eustatic changes Quaternary eustatic changes Tectonic influences Glacio and hydroisostasy Shoreline sequences in areas affected by glacio isostasy ...
... relative age Some applications of surface weathering dating Pedogenesis General principles Problems in using pedogenesis as a basis for dating Some applications of relative dating based on degree of pedogenesis Stratigraphic a n d ...
... Relative sealevel reconstructions for selected sites in the UK, based on dated index points and sealevel tendencies Relative changes in land or sea level in the UK during the late Holocene Raised coral reef terraces along the coast of ...
... relative to long term status Spatial patterns of inferred effective moisture for six timeslices between the BollingAllerod period and the present time a) Carbonate δ 18 O records from eight lake sediment sequences from the Indian ...
... Relative pollen diagram showing variations in abundance of principal taxa in a lake sediment sequence at Ioannina, northwest Greece Pollen concentration diagram for some of the taxa represented in relative proportions in Figure 4.2 ...
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