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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... 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. Throughout the world ...
... processes predominated. The term 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 ...
... processes and, in mid- and high latitudes, by glacial erosion. In parts of the deep oceans of the world, however, sediments have been accumulating in a relatively undisturbed manner for thousands, or even millions, of years, and ...
... processes. Undoubtedly the most spectacular manifestations of climatic change were the great continental ice sheets whose passage resulted in widespread modification of the land surface of mid- and high-latitude regions. The growth and ...
... processes. Satellite images have been employed to map, inter alia, desert landforms (Al-juaidi et al., 2003), glacial moraines and streamlined glacial bedforms (Stokes et al., 2005), ancient lake shorelines (Leblanc et al., 2006) and a ...
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 |