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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... Calibration of the radiocarbon timescale 5.3.3 Argon-isotope dating 5.3.3.1 Potassium–argon dating 5.3.3.2 Argon–argon (Ar/Ar) dating 5.3.3.3 Problems and limitations of argon-isotope dating 5.3.3.4 Some applications of argon-isotope ...
... records 4.47 Mg/Ca calibration results for several species of planktonic Foraminifera 230 231 232 235 236 237 239 241 243 245 247 249 250 251 252 253 253 4.48 Rapid changes in SST in the Alboran Sea. xx. FIGURES AND TABLES.
... calibration 5.11 The conversion of a Gaussian radiocarbon error range to a non-Gaussian, multi-modal error distribution in calibrated time 5.12 Wiggle-match dating of a peat sequence in the Netherlands 5.13 Branching decay of 40K 5.14 ...
... 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.
... calibrated' (cal.) equivalents (partly after Lowe et al., 2001). Geomorphological evidence Figure 2.1 Geomorphological map of the West Drumochter. occurred towards the close of the last cold stage (termed the Devensian Lateglacial 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 |