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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... 2 Varve chronology 5.4.2.1 The nature of varved sediments 290 290 291 291 291 292 293 293 293 294 294 294 294 295 296 296 297 5.4 297 298 298 298 298 298 300 302 304 304 304 305 306 306 306 307 310 310 312 312 CONTENTS xi.
... chronologies 5.4.3 Annual layers in glacier ice 5.4.3.1 General principles 5.4.3.2 Errors in ice-core chronologies 5.4 ... chronology based on processes of chemical alteration 5.6.1 Amino-acid geochronology 5.6.1.1 Chemistry of proteins ...
... Chronology of isolations from, and connections to, the sea for four littoral basins in northwest Scotland. b) Relative sea-level reconstructions for selected sites in the UK, based on dated index points and sea-level tendencies 2.37 ...
... chronology from Finnish Lapland 5.23 Simplified model of clastic and organic varve formation 5.24 The pattern and rate of ice retreat across Scandinavia based on a combination of clay-varve chronology and radiocarbon dating 5.25 a) Part ...
... chronology of climatic events represented in the NGRIP and GRIP ice-core records for the period c. 47 to c. 8.1 b2k (years before AD 2000) Age calculations based on D/L ratios of five amino acids measured in fossil terrestrial ostracods ...
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 |