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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... patterns of uplift in a) eastern Canada, b) Scandinavia and c) Scotland 2.44 Sea-level changes in Atlantic Canada 2.45 Terraces cut into outwash gravels, Glen Roy, Scotland 2.46 a) Schematic representation of the staircase of river ...
... patterns of inferred effective moisture for six time-slices between the Bølling-Allerød period and the present time 3.36 a) Carbonate δ18O records from eight lake sediment sequences from the Indian Monsoon region. b) A regional moisture ...
... patterns and causes of climate change at a range of spatial scales, and over a series of time intervals that become progressively shorter as we approach the present day. In the 1990s when the second edition of Reconstructing Quaternary ...
... patterns of oceanic circulation (Kleiven et al., 2002; Bartoli et al., 2005). Evidence for the onset of cooling is also found in a range of continental records, particularly from mid- and high-latitude regions, including loess sediments ...
... patterns of atmospheric circulation during the last cold stage, and possible linkages between terrestrial and atmospheric environments (section 7.2). A range of increasingly sophisticated models has since been developed to explore, in ...
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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