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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... activity 2.6.2 River terraces and palaeoenvironmental reconstruction 2.6.3 The terraces of the River Thames 2.7 Quaternary landforms in low latitudes 2.7.1 Pluvial lakes 2.7.2 Dunefields 2.7.3 Fluvial landforms 2.7.4 Weathering crusts ...
... activity 3.8.4.6 Speleothem formation and rates of denudation 3.8.5 Other carbonate deposits 3.9 Lake, mire and bog sediments 3.9.1 Introduction 3.9.2 The nature of lake and bog sediments 3.9.3 Palaeoenvironmental evidence from lake ...
... activity 5.3.2.3 Quality assurance in radiocarbon dating 5.3.2.4 Sources of error in radiocarbon dating 5.3.2.5 Radiocarbon dating of soils 5.3.2.6 Calibration of the radiocarbon timescale 5.3.3 Argon-isotope dating 5.3.3.1 Potassium ...
... activity throughout the Holocene 7.42 Comparing historical reconstructions of near-global land temperatures ('CRUTEM4') with Callendar (1938) and Callendar (1961), using a reference period of 1880–1935 7.43 Atmospheric concentrations of ...
... activity during cold periods, with the build-up of major continental ice sheets and the expansion of mountain glaciers in many parts of the world. However, these cold or glacial stages were interspersed with warm episodes (interglacials) ...
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 |