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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... important when the geological record is being considered, and this is discussed further in Chapter 6 (section 6.2 ... importance in the present interglacial of the evolution of the human environment. Indeed, it is this anthropogenic ...
... important milestones. In the later years of the nineteenth century, research by the Scandinavian botanists Axel Blytt and Rutger Sernander demonstrated the wealth of information on climatic and vegetational change that could be derived ...
... important development in Quaternary studies during the second half of the twentieth century has been the stratigraphic investigation of sedimentary sequences on the deep-ocean floors. Indeed, it would not be overstating the case to ...
... important) are omitted altogether. Nevertheless, an attempt has been made to present a balanced view of the various methods employed in, and sources of evidence that form the basis for, Quaternary environmental reconstructions. Some ...
... important techniques in Quaternary research, for the maps produced contain information not only on morphology but also on the genesis and, in some cases, on the age of the landforms. This type of mapping can be carried out at different ...
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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