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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... sediments Unstratified and stratified sediments Glacigenic facies The classification of tills Lodgement, meltout and 'flow' tills Deformation tills Paraglacial deposits The influence of the thermal regime of glacier ice Analysis of ...
... sediments Introduction Loess stratigraphy Midlatitude sand belts (coversands) Lowlatitude 'sand seas' Windblown sediments and palaeoenvironmental reconstructions Lakelevel records from lowlatitude regions Introduction Pluvial lake sediment ...
... sediments Introduction The nature of lake and bog sediments Palaeoenvironmental evidence from lake sediments Lake sediments and landscape changes Lakelevel variations and climatic changes Lake sediments and palaeotemperatures ...
... sediment record The nature and origin of ocean sediments Oxygen isotope ratios and the ocean sediment record General principles Glacial ice storage and the marine oxygen isotope record Ice volumes, sea level and the marine oxygen ...
... sediments Sealevel change Shallow marine water mass and temperature variations Other palaeoenvironmental applications Micropalaeontology of deepsea sediments Introduction Radiolaria Coccolithophores Dinoflagellates (dinocysts) Marine ...
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