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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... marine oxygen isotope record 3.10.2.4 Sea-surface temperatures and the marine oxygen isotope record 3.10.3 Limitations of oxygen isotope analysis 3.10.3.1 Stratigraphic resolution 3.10.3.2 Sediment mixing 3.10.3.3 Isotopic equilibrium ...
... marine Mollusca 4.6.1 Introduction 4.6.2 The nature and distribution of molluscs 4.6.3 Field and laboratory work 4.6.4 Taphonomy of non-marine molluscan assemblages 4.6.5 Interpretation of non-marine molluscan assemblages: habitat ...
... marine molluscan assemblages 4.7.3 Marine Mollusca and palaeoclimatic inferences 4.7.4 Other applications of fossil marine molluscan records 4.8 Ostracod analysis 4.8.1 The nature and distribution of ostracods 4.8.2 Collection and ...
... marine oxygen isotope measurements 2.32 Variations in eustatic sea level over a) the past 1 Ma and b) the last 500 ka 2.33 Comparison of seven different eustatic sea-level records from the last glacial cycle 2.34 a) Rise in eustatic sea ...
... marine bivalves of the North Atlantic and their water depth preferences 4.36 Distribution of marine zoogeographical provinces in the Northeast Atlantic 4.37 Variations in the dynamics of the winter North Atlantic Oscillation and of ...
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 |