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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... 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 ...
... Global teleconnections: linking mechanisms 7.4.5 Overview 7.5 The Last Termination 7.5.1 Introduction 7.5.2 Definition of the Last Termination 7.5.3 Onset of the Last Termination 7.5.4 Global teleconnections during the Last Termination ...
... global temperature change since AD 1950 compared with instrumentally measured temperature variations 7.4 Boundary conditions for the COHMAP simulation for the last 18 ka 7.5 Palaeoclimatic model simulations for the last 18 ka 7.6 ...
... Global temperature stack for the Last Termination based on eighty globally distributed records, compared with temperature and atmospheric CO2 concentration records from Antarctic ice-cores. b) Mean temperature variations for stacks of ...
... global scales. When integrated with the marine records, they afford often startling new insights into the operation of the global ocean–atmosphere–cryosphere system. A feature of Quaternary science over the past two decades or so has ...
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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