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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... North Atlantic and their water depth preferences 4.36 Distribution of marine zoogeographical provinces in the Northeast Atlantic 4.37 Variations in the dynamics of the winter North Atlantic Oscillation and of annual growth increments of ...
... North Atlantic region. Here we take a broader view and examine a series of themes related to patterns and causes of climate change at a range of spatial scales, and over a series of time intervals that become progressively shorter as we ...
... North America and in both areas demonstrated that surficial deposits that had previously been interpreted as the products of marine inundation during the flood ('diluvium') could more reasonably be regarded as the results of extensive ...
... North America (Figure 1.6). There is general agreement that the Flandrian of the British sequence can be equated with the Holocene of the European and North American sequences, and that the last cold stage identified in Britain ...
... (North Greenland Ice Core Project Members, 2004), in Chinese cave speleothems (Wang et al., 2008), in vegetational records from the last glacial stage from Africa and South America (Hessler et al., 2010) and in marine records from the ...
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 |