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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... referred to as geochronological units, and the major episodes (eras) are divided, respectively, into suberas, periods, epochs, ages and chrons. These are manifest in the geological record as chronostratigraphic units, which is the term ...
... referred to as astronomical or orbital tuning, employs known variations in the earth's orbit and axis (section 1.7), and is discussed more fully in Chapters 5 and 6. Despite the fact that the Vrica section had been accepted as the ...
... referred to as 'interglacial', and hence the idea of oscillating warm ('interglacial') and cold ('glacial') episodes emerged. By the end of the nineteenth century, drift sheets of four separate glaciations (the Nebraskan, Kansan ...
... referred to as the eccentricity of the orbit. The timing varies between 95 and 136 ka, although this is generally referred to as the 100 ka eccentricity cycle. Over a longer timescale, however, a 413 ka eccentricity cycle is also ...
... referred to as orbital forcing, are the primary driving mechanisms in Quaternary climatic change (Imbrie et al., 1993). Although the Astronomical Theory offers a basis for understanding the sequence of major Quaternary climatic ...
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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