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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... Antarctica, over the last 800 ka 12 14 14 15 21 25 26 28 29 30 2.1 Geomorphological map of the West Drumochter Hills in the Scottish Highlands 2.2 Sonar bathymetry of the north-central English Channel shelf 2.3 A digital surface model ...
... Antarctica, compared with sea-level changes inferred from the LR04 marine isotope record 7.11 Isotope time-series data for the past c. 360 ka from three East Antarctic ice-core records 7.12 Radiative forcing, temperature profile and the ...
... Antarctic and NGRIP ice cores between 10 and 52 ka using common variations in methane 7.22 Schematic representation of Atlantic water mass changes during DO cycles 7.23 Variations in concentration of terrestrial dust over the last 80 ka ...
... Antarctica, and from other polar ice caps and mountain glaciers. The ice layers revealed in the cores represent ... Antarctic ice sheet where the Vostok core has produced a record of climate and atmospheric history for the last four ...
... Antarctic Ice Sheet to the Ross Ice Shelf. Flow is from right to left (photograph © Mike Hambrey, Aberystwyth University, from http://www.glaciers-online.net). c) High-altitude trimline (dashed line) marking the maximum late Würm ice ...
Table des matières
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3 Lithological evidence | 93 |
4 Biological evidence | 181 |
5 Dating methods | 267 |
6 Approaches to Quaternary stratigraphy and correlation | 347 |
7 Global environmental change during the Quaternary | 379 |
References | 445 |
Index | 523 |
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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 |