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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... indicators 3.3.6.1 Erratics 3.3.6.2 Till fabrics 3.3.6.3 Properties of the till matrix Periglacial sediments 3.4.1 Introduction 3.4.2 Structures associated with permafrost 3.4.3 Palaeoclimatic significance of periglacial structures ...
... indicators 4.3.5.2 Diatoms and pH 4.3.5.3 Diatoms and trophic status 4.3.5.4 Diatoms and the archaeological record 4.3.5.5 Other environmental applications Plant macrofossil analysis 4.4.1 Introduction 4.4.2 The nature of plant ...
... indicators of relative age 5.6.3.4 Some applications of surface weathering dating 5.6.5 Pedogenesis 5.6.5.1 General principles 5.6.5.2 Problems in using pedogenesis as a basis for dating 5.6.5.3 Some applications of relative dating ...
... indicators of former marine temperatures (section 4.7). The seminal works of Alfred Kennard, often in association with Bernard Woodward, in the later part of the nineteenth and early years of the twentieth century provided a similar ...
... indicators (oxygen isotopes, trace gases, chemical compounds, particulate matter) of past atmospheric and climatic conditions. Ice-core data not only provide a temporal framework for Late Quaternary climatic change (section 3.11), but ...
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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