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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... example), and it will be employed in this way throughout this book. Indeed, it is possible that, in due course, the Tertiary may also be reinstated along with the Quaternary as a formal period within the geological timescale (Knox et al ...
... example, the abrupt climatic changes that have occurred during the Late Quaternary in many low-latitude regions may be related to changes in the nature and rate of North Atlantic ocean circulation, with fluctuations in sea-surface ...
... example, hand-held levels are useful for rapid surveys, but tend to produce variable results due principally to operator errors. In most geomorphological fieldwork in the mid-latitude regions, therefore, particularly where precise ...
... example on Seasat and the ERS satellites (see above). A new phase in SAR began in 2007 with the launch of the TerraSAR-X satellite, a joint project between the German Aerospace Centre and EADS Astrium, an aerospace subsidiary of the ...
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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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