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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... problems and age range 5.3.4.3 Some applications of U-series dating 5.3.5 Fission track dating 5.3.5.1 General principles 5.3.5.2 Measurement and problems 5.3.5.3 Some applications of fission track dating 5.3.6 Luminescence dating 5.3 ...
... Problems with obsidian hydration dating 5.6.3.3 Some applications of obsidian hydration dating 5.6.4 Weathering characteristics of rock surfaces 5.6.4.1 General principles 5.6.4.2 Problems in using surface weathering features as ...
... problems. The terrestrial stratigraphic record is often fragmented; evidence is absent from many areas, while detailed sequences are only locally preserved. Moreover, the cyclical nature of climatic In the terminology of the geological ...
... problem of recognizing an interglacial as opposed to an interstadial episode on the basis of degree of vegetation development ... problems (defining acceptable thresholds between 'warm' and 'cold' episodes; quantifying climatic change ...
... problems relating to the Astronomical Theory still need to be resolved. For example, although the onset of Northern Hemisphere glaciation, as reflected in the build-up of large ice sheets in North America and Europe, dates from around ...
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 |