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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... climatic range method of quantitative temperature reconstructions 4.27 Test of the MCR method on assemblages of species found living today at thirty-five localities in North America 4.28 Generalized climatic curves of estimated TMAX ...
... climatic fluctuations that have occurred throughout this latest chapter of earth history have given rise to a highly complex record of landforms, sediments, biological (including human) remains and assemblages of human artefacts. From ...
... climatic rhythm, centred on c. 2.6 Ma, appears to have been driven by variations in the earth's orbit and axis (section 1.6), and involved a change in pacing from 23 ka to 41 ka climatic cycles. In particular, the shape of the climate ...
... climatic conditions, and of Oswald Heer wherein ecological changes in Switzerland were discussed in the context of Quaternary climatic changes, were particularly important milestones. In the later years of the nineteenth century ...
... climatic conditions. Ice-core data not only provide a temporal framework for Late Quaternary climatic change (section 3.11), but the upper levels of the ice cores also record the effects of recent industrial activity. The most recent ...
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 |