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 |
À l'intérieur du livre
Résultats 1-5 sur 89
... Northern Hemisphere during the Quaternary 1.5 Climatic trends during the past 3 Ma reflected in a stacked (composite) oxygen isotope record 1.6 The MIS record based on a composite of deep-ocean cores and the Quaternary stratigraphy of ...
... northern Canada 2.22 a) The relationship between 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 ...
... northern England, showing a lower dark, well-humified peat overlain by a lighter-coloured, less well-humified peat. b) A peat section from Store Vildmose, Denmark, showing both lateral and vertical alternations in darker and lighter ...
... northern Britain during the past 7.5 ka based on plant macrofossil evidence for increased bog-surface wetness 4.21 Subfossil coleopteran sclerites recovered by flotation from peat deposits overlying a Bronze Age occupation site near ...
... northern North Atlantic, Arabian Sea and Brazilian Atlantic margin 6.16 Comparison between colour reflectance of Cariaco Basin sediments and the GISP2 δ18O record over the last glacial cycle 6.17 Correlation between the δ18O record from ...
Table des matières
1 | |
19 | |
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 |
Autres éditions - Tout afficher
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 |