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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... obtained from diamictons 3.13 Particle size distributions (cumulative frequency curves) showing distinctive curves obtained from diamictons and sorted sediments 3.14 Schematic facies logs of glacigenic sediments in Wales 3.15 Idealized ...
... obtained from core GeoTü-KL11 in the Red Sea 7.25 Schematic representation of the role of dust in the earth feedback system 7.26 Isotopic records from Antarctica and Greenland for the Last Termination, defined here as the interval ...
... obtained from these microfossils reflects the changing isotopic composition of ocean waters over time. Insofar as the marine oxygen isotope balance is largely controlled by fluctuations in volume of land ice (section 3.10), variations ...
... obtained using the various methods and approaches outlined in Chapters 1–6. The aim here is to highlight recent advances in understanding of the processes that drive climatic change over different timescales (Milankovitch to decadal) ...
... obtained by instrumental measurements in the field. The comparison of altitudes of landforms or stratigraphic ... obtaining precise altitudinal measurements on each terrace fragment, however, formerly continuous features can be ...
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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