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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... particularly from mid- and high-latitude regions, including loess sediments (Ding et al., 2005), pollen data (Kuhlmann et al., 2006) and faunal evidence (Brugal & Croitor, 2007). However, low-latitude regions were also affected with ...
... particularly important milestones. In the later years of the nineteenth century, research by the Scandinavian botanists Axel Blytt and Rutger Sernander demonstrated the wealth of information on climatic and vegetational change that ...
... particularly during the second half of the twentieth century, has been in the development of increasingly sophisticated computer-based models which simulate a range of aspects of Quaternary environments. This type of work began in the ...
... particularly to the oxygen isotope record in the marine microfossils contained within those sediments. As will be shown in Chapter 3, the oxygen isotope trace (or 'signal') obtained from these microfossils reflects the changing isotopic ...
... particularly, the 'information explosion'that has occurred over the past two decades, a comprehensive treatment would run far beyond the scope of a single volume. Some aspects are, therefore, considered only briefly, while others (which ...
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 |