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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... reconstructions 4.2.6.2 Regional vegetation reconstructions 4.2.6.3 Space–time reconstructions 4.2.6.4 Human impact on vegetation cover 4.2.6.5 Pollen data and climatic reconstructions Diatom analysis 4.3.1 Introduction 4.3.2 The nature ...
... Reconstruction of the Loch Lomond (Younger Dryas) Stadial icefield in the Pass of Drumochter area, Scottish Highlands ... reconstructions for selected sites in the UK, based on dated index points and sea-level tendencies 2.37 Relative ...
... 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 maxima and ...
... reconstructions 4.27 Test of the MCR method on assemblages of species found living today at thirty-five localities in North America 4.28 Generalized climatic curves of estimated TMAX variations during the Lateglacial–early Holocene for ...
... Reconstruction of woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) based on carcass remains discovered, in Yakutia, arctic Siberia 4.50 Age estimates of Pleistocene records of the spotted hyena (now confined to Africa) in Europe 4.51 Reconstructions ...
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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