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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... nature of glacial sediments 3.3.2.1 Unstratified and stratified sediments 3.3.2.2 Glacigenic facies 3.3.3 The classification of tills 3.3.3.1 Lodgement, melt-out and 'flow' tills 3.3.3.2 Deformation tills 3.3.3.3 Paraglacial deposits ...
... nature of lake and bog sediments 3.9.3 Palaeoenvironmental evidence from lake sediments 3.9.3.1 Lake sediments and landscape changes 3.9.3.2 Lake-level variations and climatic changes 3.9.3.3 Lake sediments and palaeotemperatures 3.9.4 ...
... nature of pollen and spores 4.2.3 Field and laboratory work 4.2.4 Pollen diagrams 4.2.5 The interpretation of pollen diagrams 4.2.6 Applications of pollen stratigraphy 4.2.6.1 Local vegetation reconstructions 4.2.6.2 Regional vegetation ...
... nature and distribution of ostracods 4.8.2 Collection and identification 4.8.3 Ostracoda in Quaternary studies 4.9 Foraminiferal analysis 4.9.1 The nature and distribution of Foraminifera 4.9.2 Collection and identification 4.9.3 ...
... 2 Varve chronology 5.4.2.1 The nature of varved sediments 290 290 291 291 291 292 293 293 293 294 294 294 294 295 296 296 297 5.4 297 298 298 298 298 298 300 302 304 304 304 305 306 306 306 307 310 310 312 312 CONTENTS xi.
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 |