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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... 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 the Northern Hemisphere 1.7 The δ18O record from the GRIP Greenland ice ...
... past 6 ka. b) The number of settlements occupied in the region over the same period 2.50 Schematic transverse profiles through the best-preserved suite of the terrace staircase of a) the Middle Thames (c. 35 km west of London) and b ...
... 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 Ballyarnet Lake, Co. Derry ...
... past 5 Ma 7.8 a) Marine oxygen isotope record for the last 2.1 Ma and the spectral signal of the 41 ka and 100 ka cycles from this record. b) A measure of the strength of correlation between the stacked oxygen isotope record and ...
... past 2 ka 7.44 Concentration natural trace-gas of CH4 and CO2 over the last 11 ka, showing departures (increases) from the trends 7.45 Schematic diagram showing superimposition of global climatic variations at different frequencies 7.46 ...
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 |