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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... timescale The duration of the Quaternary The development of Quaternary studies Historical developments Recent developments The framework of the Quaternary The causes of climatic change The scope of this book Notes Geomorphological ...
... timescale Argonisotope dating Potassiumargon dating Argonargon (Ar/Ar) dating Problems and limitations of argon isotope dating Some applications of argonisotope dating Uraniumseries (Useries) dating General principles Measurement ...
... timescale The Cenozoic timescale, as defined in 2014 The Monte San Nicola section in southern Sicily The maximum glaciation of the Northern Hemisphere during the Quaternary Climatic trends during the past 3 Ma reflected in a stacked ...
... timescale Lichenometric growth curves for Rhizocarpon spp. from West Greenland, West Spitsbergen and Baffin Island Radiographs of coreslabs cut from a) Pleistocene and b) modern coral reefs (Montastraea) in Florida Bay, Gulf of Mexico ...
... timescale of the last 3.5 Ma Variations in the earth's magnetic inclination and field strength (palaeointensity) during the last 2.5 Ma Magnetic susceptibility variations through a complete Quaternary loess sequence at Luochuan on the ...
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Reconstructing Quaternary Environments John Lowe,Mike Walker,Mike J. C. Walker Aucun aperçu disponible - 2014 |
Reconstructing Quaternary Environments J. John Lowe,Mike Walker,Mike J. C. Walker Aucun aperçu disponible - 2014 |