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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... glacial activity during the Late Miocene (10–9 Ma) in Greenland (Lykke-Andersen, 1998) and during the Middle Miocene (16–15 Ma) in Alaska (Lagoe et al., 1993), while in Antarctica the Cenozoic glacial record can be traced back to 40–35 ...
... glacial deposits (drift) were referred to as 'interglacial', and hence the idea of oscillating warm ('interglacial') and cold ('glacial') episodes emerged. By the end of the nineteenth century, drift sheets of four separate glaciations ...
... glacial erosion. In parts of the deep oceans of the world, however, sediments have been accumulating in a relatively undisturbed manner for thousands, or even millions, of years, and therefore frequently span the entire range of ...
... glacial and interglacial stages, with further subdivision into stadial and interstadial episodes. Glacial stages have traditionally been regarded as protracted cold phases when the major expansions of ice sheets and glaciers took place ...
... glacial periods and 'Yarmouthian' and 'Aftonian' interglacials have been largely abandoned in favour of a series of stages prior to the Illinoian Glacial that are designated simply by letter. In Britain and northern Europe, it is now ...
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 |