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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... carbon content 3.2.3.5 Metallic elements 3.2.3.6 Heavy minerals 3.2.3.7 Clay mineralogy 3.2.3.8 Mineral magnetic 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 ...
... Carbon isotopes in marine sediments 3.11 Ice-core stratigraphy 3.11.1 A brief history of deep-ice coring 3.11.2 Ice masses as palaeoenvironmental archives 3.11.3 Analysis of ice cores 3.11.3.1 Annual ice increments 3.11.3.2 Dust content ...
... carbon, b) by inert carbon Reliability of uranium-series dates for terrestrial materials due to deviations from closed system behaviour and contamination Summary of characteristics and scope of nuclides used in surface exposure (CRN) ...
... carbon cycle. As a consequence, the atmosphere becomes depleted in CO2 , a process which may have contributed to the long-term Plio-Pleistocene global cooling trend (Raymo & Ruddiman, 1992). In addition to these long-term variations in ...
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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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