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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... Late Holocene solar cycles 7.6.4.2 El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) 7.6.4.3 Late Holocene Atlantic and Pacific Oscillations 7.6.5 People and climate 7.6.5.1 The greenhouse effect 7.6.5.2 Early human impact? 7.6.5.3 Delayed glaciation ...
... Late Weichselian ice sheet. b) Recessional stages of the Late Weichselian ice sheet 2.7 a) Cross-section through ice-marginal ridges of Late Weichselian age in Denmark. b) Up-thrusted and folded Middle Weichselian lacustrine and fluvial ...
... (Late Devensian) British ice sheet 2.18 Model simulations of a) basal ice temperature and b) horizontal basal velocity of the last British Ice sheet during the LGM 2.19 Four numerical simulation models of the ice sheets over North ...
... late Quaternary lake sediment sequences from northwest Europe 4.30 Chironomid-inferred temperature variations for the Lateglacial sequence near the Majola Pass, Swiss Alps, compared with the NGRIP isotope record 4.31 a) Fossil shells of ...
... Late Miocene (10–9 Ma) in Greenland (Lykke-Andersen, 1998) and during the Middle Miocene (16–15 Ma) in Alaska (Lagoe et al., 1993), while in Antarctica the Cenozoic glacial record can be traced back to 40–35 Ma (Ingólfsson, 2004). These ...
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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