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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... developed under different thermal regimes 3.16 The giant quartzite erratic ('The Big Rock') near Okotoks, southwest Alberta, Canada 3.17 a) Distribution of some indicator erratics by ice in Britain and northwest Europe. b) The ...
... developed between 9 and 4 ka 3.33 a) Locations of lakes for which lake-level data are lodged with the PMIP Global Lake Status Data Base. b) Lake status data for 18 ka. c) Lake status for 6 ka 3.34 Lake-status data for 6 ka expressed as ...
... developed the concept. By the 1850s, evidence was beginning to emerge for two glaciations in parts of Britain and Europe and, as early as 1877, James Geikie was describing evidence for four separate glaciations in eastern England. The ...
... developed in Sweden by Lennart von Post and which is still one of the most widely used methods in palaeoecology (section 4.2). Systematic investigations of other forms of biological evidence also began during the last century. Important ...
... developed to explore, in addition to atmospheric circulation, such diverse phenomena as ice sheet behaviour (Siegert & Dowdeswell, 2004), glacio-isostatic effects (Peltier, 2002), oceanographical changes (Weber et al., 2007), past ...
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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