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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... remains 4.5.1 Introduction 4.5.2 Coleoptera 4.5.3 Laboratory methods 4.5.4 Coleopteran analysis and Quaternary environments 4.5.4.1 Habitat preferences 4.5.4.2 Palaeoclimatic inferences based on coleopteran assemblages 4.5.4.3 Insect ...
... remains 4.11.1 Introduction 4.11.2 The structure of teeth and bones 4.11.3 Fossilization of bone material 4.11.4 Field and laboratory techniques 4.11.5 The taphonomy of fossil vertebrate assemblages 4.11.5.1 Cave and fissure deposits ...
... Range, Washington State, USA 4.19 Recruitment pathways and processes by which plant macrofossil remains are delivered to lakes 199 201 202 204 205 206 207 209 210 211 213 216 217 218 220 221 223 223 224 226 FIGURES AND TABLES. xix.
... remains essential, and even where mapping is based on large-scale, good-quality aerial photographs, the results must be viewed as no more than a provisional map of the Quaternary geomorphology of a region until the interpretations can ...
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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 |