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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... surfaces General principles Problems in using surface weathering features as indicators of relative age Some applications of surface weathering dating Pedogenesis General principles Problems in using pedogenesis as a basis for dating ...
... surfaces of shoreline fragments in Fife, eastern Scotland Isobase and trend surface data reflecting patterns of uplift in a) eastern Canada, b) Scandinavia and c) Scotland Sealevel changes in Atlantic Canada Terraces cut into outwash ...
... surface dimensions of modern Lake Chad, Palaeolake MegaChad, and the Chad drainage catchment a) Hydroisostatic deformation of the Bonneville Shoreline of Pluvial Lake Bonneville. b) Chronology of water level changes in Lake Bonneville ...
... surface of a stalagmite from Akçakale Cave, northeast Turkey revealing annual growth layers spanning the last c. 500 yr. b) Crosssectioned surface of a small stalagmite from Rukiessa Cave, southeast Ethiopia, spanning the last century ...
... surface conditions in the Northeast Atlantic during the Last Glacial Maximum based on marine microfossil records Mg/Ca calibration results for several species of planktonic Foraminifera Rapid changes in SST in the Alboran Sea ...
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Reconstructing Quaternary Environments J. John Lowe,Mike Walker,Mike J. C. Walker Aucun aperçu disponible - 2014 |