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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... interglacial high sea-level stands 3.57 Schematic representation of oxygen isotope variations for the past 600 ka 3.58 Comparison between estimates of sea-level variations for the last 140 ka based on marine isotopic and coral reef ...
... interglacial cycle 424 425 426 427 428 429 430 432 433 437 438 438 441 442. TABLES. 97 3.1 3.2 The Wentworth scale of particle size fractions and the equivalent φ (phi) units Range of air temperature thresholds for the formation of ...
... (interglacials) during which temperatures in the mid- and high-latitude regions were occasionally higher than those of the present day. During the last interglacial in Britain around 120 ka,1 for example, hippopotamuses swam in the River ...
... interglacial cycles. The deep-ocean sediment record (see section 1.6) suggests that over the course of the full range of Quaternary time, the world may have experienced more than fifty cold or glacial stages and a corresponding number ...
... 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 (the Nebraskan, Kansan, Illinoian and ...
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 |