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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... contain high-resolution records of the GS-1 interval and inferred positions of the Polar Front 7.34 a) The end ... contains the Vedde Ash layer 7.35 Comparison of the timing of the mid-YD transitions reflected in the Kråkenes and ...
... contains its own set of problems. The terrestrial stratigraphic record is often fragmented; evidence is absent from ... contain two separate epochs: the Pleistocene (originally meaning 'most recent'), which ended around 11.7 ka, and the ...
... contains a sequence of uplifted Mediterranean marine sediments and sapropels6 spanning the Piacenzian, Gelasian and Calabrian. The top of the sapropelic (dark) Nicola bed marks the base of the Gelasian stage, now the boundary stratotype ...
... contain other indices of environmental change, most notably variations in oxygen isotope content. Pioneered by Cesare Emiliani, oxygen isotope analysis is now regarded as one of the most powerful tools in Quaternary stratigraphy and ...
... contain their own sets of problems (defining acceptable thresholds between 'warm' and 'cold' episodes; quantifying ... contained within those sediments. As will be shown in Chapter 3, the oxygen isotope trace (or 'signal') obtained from ...
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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