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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... Moraine systems in a) Bhutan-Himalaya, b) northwest Scotland and c) Antarctica 2.5 a) Features used to identify ... moraines dating to the Tahoe series in Pine Creek Canyon, California 2.12 Local ice-flow direction based on mapping ...
... moraines and streamlined glacial bedforms (Stokes et al., 2005), ancient lake shorelines (Leblanc et al., 2006) and a range of periglacial landforms (Walsh et al., 2003). Examples of modern geomorphic processes that can be observed ...
... moraines' or on the limits of glacigenic deposits ('Drift Border'), and by 1878, a map had been produced of the southern margin of the glaciated area between Cape Cod and North Dakota. Similar investigations of glacial drift cover and ...
... moraines and lakes near their termini. b) Marginal lateral moraines (dotted box) and 'hummocky' or 'dump' moraines of Loch Lomond Stadial age (c. 12.9–11.7 ka) in Coire na Phris, northwest Scotland (from Lukas & Benn, 2006; photograph ...
... moraine. Where end moraines are found within areas formerly covered by glacier ice, further problems of interpretation are encountered. There has been considerable debate over whether such moraines are, strictly speaking, recessional ...
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 |
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