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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... Soil stratigraphy Oxygen isotope stratigraphy Climatostratigraphy Chronostratigraphy Timestratigraphic correlation Principles of Quaternary correlation Bases for timestratigraphic correlation Palaeomagnetic correlation Correlation using ...
... soil horizons within Weichselian loess deposits in southern Poland a) The early Quaternary 'Wucheng' sequence of loess units and soil horizons exposed at the Luochuan site on the Loess Plateau, China. b) The S1 (last interglacial) soil ...
... soil–peat complex in Iceland. b) The North Atlantic Ash Zone 2 tephra layer preserved in the NGRIP ice core. c) Fluted distal shards of the Campagnian Ignimbrite from Campania, Italy. d) Platy distal shards of the Vedde Ash from Katla ...
... soil development were all used to assess the duration of Quaternary episodes. The first, and for many years the only, quantitative method for estimating the passage of time was varve chronology developed around the turn of the century ...
... soil and debris mantle thickness (Sucre et al., 2011). 2.2.2.4 Sonar and seismic sensing Several techniques have been developed that are based on the gravitational, magnetic or electrical properties of the earth. Transmission of ...
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