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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... Recent developments 1.6 The framework of the Quaternary 1.7 The causes of climatic change 1.8 The scope of this book Notes 1 2 2 3 5 5 7 9 13 16 17 2 19 19 19 19 19 20 22 22 Geomorphological evidence 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Methods 2.2.1 ...
... Recent developments in amino-acid geochronology 5.6.1.6 Some applications of amino-acid geochronology 5.6.2 Fluorine, uranium and nitrogen content of fossil bones 5.6.3 Obsidian hydration dating (OHD) 5.6.3.1 General principles 5.6.3.2 ...
... recent major subdivision of the geological record, and it extends up to, and includes, the present day. Together with the Neogene andPalaeogene it forms the Cenozoic, the fourth of the great geological eras (Figure 1.1). The Quaternary ...
... recent'), which ended around 11.7 ka, and the Holocene ('entirely recent'), which is the present warm interval in which we live (Figure 1.2). These are represented in the stratigraphic record as the Quaternary system and the Pleistocene ...
... recent past. Although the Glacial Theory did not immediately gain widespread acceptance, its adherents rapidly refined and developed the concept. By the 1850s, evidence was beginning to emerge for two glaciations in parts of Britain and ...
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 J. John Lowe,Mike Walker,Mike J. C. Walker Aucun aperçu disponible - 2014 |