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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... Periglacial landforms 2.4.1 Palaeoclimatic inferences based on periglacial evidence 2.4.1.1 Rock glaciers 2.4.1.2 Pingos and palsas 2.4.1.3 Pronival ('protalus') ramparts 2.5 Sea-level change 2.5.1 Relative and 'absolute' sea-level ...
... Periglacial sediments 3.4.1 Introduction 3.4.2 Structures associated with permafrost 3.4.3 Palaeoclimatic significance of periglacial structures Palaeosols 3.5.1 Introduction 3.5.2 The nature of palaeosols 3.5.3 Analysis of palaeosols ...
... φ (phi) units Range of air temperature thresholds for the formation of selected periglacial features estimated by different authorities in the field 119 3.3 4.1 4.2 5.1 5.2 151 191 193 277 278. xxiv. FIGURES AND TABLES.
... periglacial (cold climate) processes expanded and contracted. In low-latitude regions, the desert and savannah margins shifted through several degrees of latitude as phases of aridity alternated with episodes of higher precipitation ...
... periglacial was first used to describe such regions by the Polish geomorphologist Walery von Lozinski in 1909. Biological evidence for Quaternary environmental change also began to emerge soon after the introduction of the Glacial ...
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 |