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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... Sealevel change 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 ...
... Sealevel change Shallow marine water mass and temperature variations Other palaeoenvironmental applications Micropalaeontology of deepsea sediments Introduction Radiolaria Coccolithophores Dinoflagellates (dinocysts) Marine microfossils ...
... sealevel variations over the last 9.5 Ma based on marine oxygen isotope measurements Variations in eustatic sea ... Rise in eustatic sea level since the LGM; b) Land elevation changes in Hudson Bay, Canada and c) in northern Sweden ...
... sea levels would rise as water was returned to the oceans. This was the first statement of the GlacioEustatic Theory of sealevel change (section 2.5.2). MacLaren suggested that sea levels would fall by 350–400 ft (c. 110–130 m) during a ...
... sealevel changes and subsequently on deepocean sediments reawakened interest in the Milankovitch hypothesis (Imbrie & Imbrie, 1979). The first clue came from the dating of coral reefs around the island of Barbados, which showed high ...
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