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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... Proxy climate reconstructions from Temple Hill Moss, southeast Scotland 3.55 Heinrich layers in deep-ocean sediments from the northwestern Labrador Sea 3.56 Variations in surface water oxygen isotope ratios during times of glacial ...
... proxy for temperature fluctuations, in the NGRIP ice core 7.24 Terrestrial dust flux and sea-level reconstruction for the period 36–64 ka BP based on analysis of proxy records obtained from core GeoTü-KL11 in the Red Sea 7.25 Schematic ...
... proxy. In geology, all formal chronostratigraphic units and the boundaries between them are defined on the basis of Figure 1.2 The Cenozoic timescale, as defined in 2014. The boundary stratotypes that have been formally ratified by the ...
... proxy indicators (oxygen isotopes, trace gases, chemical compounds, particulate matter) of past atmospheric and climatic conditions. Ice-core data not only provide a temporal framework for Late Quaternary climatic change (section 3.11) ...
... proxy climate record with 'peaks' marking warmer (interglacial) intervals and 'troughs' colder (glacial) episodes (section 3.10). The astronomically driven millennial-scale climatic oscillations are present throughout, but their ...
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 |