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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... Stratigraphic—Quaternary. 2. Paleogeography— Quaternary. 3. Geomorphology. I. Walker, Mike. II. Title. QE696.L776 2014 551.7′9—dc23 2013044728 ISBN: 9780415740753 (hbk) ISBN: 9780131274686 (pbk) ISBN: 9781315797496 (ebk) Typeset in ...
... Stratigraphic a n d temporal resolution Conclusions Notes Approaches to Quaternary stratigraphy and correlation Introduction Stratigraphic subdivision Principles of Quaternary stratigraphy Stratotypes Elements of Quaternary stratigraphy ...
... stratigraphy Oxygen isotope stratigraphy Climatostratigraphy Chronostratigraphy Timestratigraphic correlation Principles of Quaternary correlation Bases for timestratigraphic correlation Palaeomagnetic correlation Correlation using ...
... stratigraphy of the Northern Hemisphere The δ 18 O record from the GRIP Greenland ice core showing the Lateglacial event stratigraphy and the stratigraphic subdivision of the Lateglacial in northwest Europe and the British Isles The ...
... Stratigraphic and temporal resolution in Quaternary sediment sequences Timetransgression in lithostratigraphic and biostratigraphic boundaries Lithostratigraphic subdivision of a glacigenic sequence Sequence of sedimentary units ...
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