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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... ocean sediments 3.10.2 Oxygen isotope ratios and the ocean sediment record 3.10.2.1 General principles 3.10.2.2 Glacial ice storage and the marine oxygen isotope record 3.10.2.3 Ice volumes, sea level and the marine oxygen isotope ...
... ocean isotopic record spanning the last 300 ka 5.41 Comparison of orbitally tuned age estimates based on SPECMAP and independently dated U-series coral ages 5.42 Chemistry of amino acids 5.43 Amino-acid geochronology of coastal barrier ...
... Ocean with the GRIP δ18O ice-core record using Heinrich events (H1–H5) as tie-points 6.15 Tentative correlations ... ocean conveyor' 7.18 Cross-section of the Atlantic Ocean basin showing thermal stratification, principal flows and ...
... ocean marine isotope signal, and the consequent ramifications for subdividing and correlating the Quaternary record. Over the last decade or so, it has been the polar ice-core records that have taken us into new areas of Quaternary ...
... ocean core-drilling vessel. The Joides Resolution is a purpose-built ocean drilling vessel that can recover cores from the sea floor in water depths of up to 5,980 m. It is equipped with drilling apparatus capable of extracting cores ...
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 |