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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... ice movement 2.3.3.1 Striations 2.3.3.2 Friction cracks 2.3.3.3 Ice-moulded (streamlined) bedrock 2.3.3.4 Streamlined glacial deposits 2.3.4 Reconstruction of former ice masses 2.3.4.1 Ice sheet modelling 2.3.4.2 Ice caps and glaciers ...
... ice-core record, Antarctica, over the last 800 ka 12 14 14 15 21 25 26 28 29 30 2.1 Geomorphological map of the West Drumochter Hills in the Scottish Highlands 2.2 Sonar bathymetry of the north-central English Channel shelf 2.3 A ...
... ice sheet 2.16 Examples of input and output parameters employed in a numerical model simulation of the last Laurentide ice sheet 2.17 Inverse models of the last (Late Devensian) British ice sheet 2.18 Model simulations of a) basal ice ...
... ice-core record using Heinrich events (H1–H5) as tie-points 6.15 Tentative correlations between records from the Greenland ice sheet, northern North Atlantic, Arabian Sea and Brazilian Atlantic margin 6.16 Comparison between colour ...
... ice sheets and glaciers. Ice-core drilling began on the Greenland ice sheet in the late 1950s, and was followed in the 1960s by the drilling of the first deep polar ice core to bedrock at Camp Century, Greenland (Dansgaard et al., 1969) ...
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 |