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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... deposits 3.3.4 The influence of the thermal regime of glacier ice 3.3.5 Analysis of glacigenic sequences 3.3.5.1 Particle size and shape analysis 3.3.5.2 Lithofacies interpretations 3.3.6 Ice-directional indicators 3.3.6.1 Erratics 3.3 ...
... deposits and fan gravels from Pluvial Lake Lahontan 2.53 The maximum limits of late Pleistocene pluvial lakes in the American southwest 2.54 Location and surface dimensions of modern Lake Chad, Palaeolake Mega-Chad, and the Chad ...
... deposits in southern Poland 3.26 a) The early Quaternary 'Wucheng' sequence of loess units and soil horizons exposed at the Luochuan site on the Loess Plateau, China. b) The S1 (last interglacial) soil profile exposed at the Lantian ...
... deposits from the site of St Front, France 4.2 Relative pollen diagram showing variations in abundance of principal taxa in a lake sediment sequence at Ioannina, northwest Greece 4.3 Pollen concentration diagram for some of the taxa ...
... deposits overlying a Bronze Age occupation site near Ballyarnet Lake, Co. Derry, Northern Ireland 4.22 Generalized drawings of coleopteran sclerites frequently preserved as Quaternary fossils, showing a range of diagnostic features used ...
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 |