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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... basis for calibrating the radiocarbon timescale (Chapter 5). Photograph courtesy of Takeshi Nakagawa, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan. CHAPTER ONE The Quaternary record 1.1 INTRODUCTION The Quaternary is Cover image details.
... basis of evidence for widespread glaciation. It is now apparent, however, that many of the high-latitude regions supported glaciers long before the onset of the Quaternary. There is evidence, for example, of glacial activity during the ...
... basis for both descriptive and predictive modelling of Quaternary environments and environmental change. Such an approach is typified by the Climate/Long Range Investigation Mapping and Prediction (CLIMAP) group (CLIMAP Project Members ...
... basis for, Quaternary environmental reconstructions. Some temporal bias is inevitable, as far more is known about the later Quaternary than about the earlier parts of the period, and therefore the majority of examples are drawn from the ...
... basis for determining the relative heights of features within the survey area, the 'absolute' geodetic position of the temporary datum cannot be established, and this limits the potential for altitudinal correlation with features in ...
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 |