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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... sample Quaternary sediments Xradiograph images of laminated (varved) lake sediments that accumulated in a former icedammed lake near Loch Lomond, Scotland Schematic model of supra, en and subglacial 'subenvironments' within the marginal ...
... samples Examples of microfabrics in deformed till identified using thin section analysis on samples obtained from tills in Ontario, Canada Scanning electron photomicrographs of vertical sections through the fine matrix of tills View ...
... sample with a true age of 10 ka BP Decay curve for radiocarbon The 5 MV National Electrostatics Corporation Accelerator Mass Spectrometer at the Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre, East Kilbride, UK The exposed sample ...
... samples for a study of earthquake and tsunami mechanisms. Photograph courtesy of Arito Sakaguchi, Yamaguchi University, Japan. Coring in Lake Suigetsu, Japan. The photograph shows the floating drilling platform that was used in the ...
... samples from the ocean. Prior to the Second World War, only short sediment cores (less than 1 m in length) could be raised from the sea bed. The development of a piston corer by the Swedish oceanographer Börje Kullenberg heralded the ...
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