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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... Organic (biogenic) varves) 5.4.2.4 Chemical varves 5.4.2.5 Complex varves 5.4.2.6 Sources of error in varve counting 5.4.2.7 Applications of varve chronologies 5.4.3 Annual layers in glacier ice 5.4.3.1 General principles 5.4.3.2 Errors ...
... organic deposits exposed beneath till at Pakefield, Suffolk, UK 3.46 Some sediment types deposited with increasing depth of water under oligotrophic and eutrophic conditions 3.47 Schematic representation of gradual infill of a small ...
... organic varve formation 5.24 The pattern and rate of ice retreat across Scandinavia based on a combination of clay-varve chronology and radiocarbon dating 5.25 a) Part of a varved sequence from Lake Suigetsu, Japan. b) Photomicrographs ...
... organic matter that develop during periods of reduced oxygen availability in bottom waters. For further details, see sections 5.5.4 and 6.3.3.3. 7 Spectral analysis is a statistical technique which aims to identify cycles in time-series ...
... organic sediments are found interbedded with two glacigenic units, for example) or, in some instances, from other geomorphological features, such as indicators of changing directions of ice flow between successive glacial episodes ...
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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