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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... mean winter snow accumulation and mean temperature during the ablation season for modern glaciers in Norway. b) Generalized contours for inferred ELAs based on reconstructed glaciers in Scotland 2.23 Mean equilibrium-line altitudes for ...
... Mean annual temperature in northwest Europe during the 27–20 k14Cyr BP interval. b) Mean annual temperature in northwest Europe during the 20–13 k14Cyr BP interval 3.23 a) Permafrost limits in northwest Europe during the Younger Dryas ...
... Mean temperature variations for stacks of proxy records arranged in 30° latitude bands 7.30 Hypothesized chain of events during the Last Termination 7.31 Quantified palaeotemperature records for the Lateglacial and early Holocene from ...
... means of correlation; and finally, the integration of different lines of evidence to produce an overall palaeoenvironmental synthesis. Each one of these stages contains its own set of problems. The terrestrial stratigraphic record is ...
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 |