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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... analysis 3.2.3.9 Stable isotope analysis Glacial sediments 3.3.1 Introduction 3.3.2 The nature of glacial sediments 3.3.2.1 Unstratified and stratified sediments 3.3.2.2 Glacigenic facies 3.3.3 The classification of tills 3.3.3.1 ...
... analysis 3.10.3.1 Stratigraphic resolution 3.10.3.2 Sediment mixing 3.10.3.3 Isotopic equilibrium between test carbonate and ocean water 3.10.3.4 Carbonate dissolution and diagenesis 3.10.4 Carbon isotopes in marine sediments 3.11 Ice ...
... analysis 4.3.1 Introduction 4.3.2 The nature and ecology of diatoms 4.3.3 Field and laboratory methods 4.3.4 The interpretation of Quaternary diatom records 4.3.5 Applications of diatom analysis 4.3.5.1 Diatoms as salinity indicators ...
... Analysis of marine molluscan assemblages 4.7.3 Marine Mollusca and palaeoclimatic inferences 4.7.4 Other applications of fossil marine molluscan records 4.8 Ostracod analysis 4.8.1 The nature and distribution of ostracods 4.8.2 ...
... analysis of thin section samples 3.9 Examples of microfabrics in deformed till identified using thin-section analysis on samples obtained from tills in Ontario, Canada 3.10 Scanning electron photomicrographs of vertical sections through ...
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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