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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... models 7.2.3 General circulation models (GCMs) 7.2.4 Earth system models of intermediate complexity (EMICs) 7.2.5 Transient simulations 7.2.6 Palaeodata-model comparisons 7.2.7 Limitations of ESMs 7.2.8 The importance of ESMs in ...
... models and correlation procedures 7.5.5.4 Rapid environmental change during the Lateglacial 7.6. Climate and the Holocene 7.6.1 Introduction 7.6.2 Holocene climate trends 7.6.3 Holocene climatic events 7.6.3.1 The Pleistocene–Holocene ...
... model simulation of the last Laurentide ice sheet 2.17 Inverse models of the last (Late Devensian) British ice sheet 2.18 Model simulations of a) basal ice temperature and b) horizontal basal velocity of the last British Ice sheet ...
... model of supra-, en- and subglacial 'subenvironments' within the marginal zone of a continental ice mass 3.5 Schematic model of modes of deposition in proximal zones associated with continental and marine ice margins 3.6 Examples of ...
... model. b) Box model results simulating the 100 ka Milankovitch climatic cycle 7.2 Cartesian grid arrangement for a GCM 7.3 Comparison of GCM simulations of global temperature change since AD 1950 compared with instrumentally measured ...
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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