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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Résultats 1-5 sur 74
... Rock glaciers 2.4.1.2 Pingos and palsas 2.4.1.3 Pronival ('protalus') ramparts 2.5 Sea-level change 2.5.1 Relative and 'absolute' sea-level changes 2.5.2 Eustatic changes in sea level 2.5.2.1 Pre-Quaternary eustatic changes 2.5.2.2 ...
... rock surfaces 5.6.4.1 General principles 5.6.4.2 Problems in using surface weathering features as indicators of relative age 5.6.3.4 Some applications of surface weathering dating 5.6.5 Pedogenesis 5.6.5.1 General principles 5.6.5.2 ...
... rock glaciers near Lytton, British Columbia, Canada 2.28 Fossil protalus rampart and stratified scree near Cader Idris, Wales 2.29 Altitudes of the frontal crests of Loch Lomond (Younger Dryas) Stadial protalus ramparts in the Scottish ...
... Rock') near Okotoks, southwest Alberta, Canada 3.17 a) Distribution of some indicator erratics by ice in Britain and northwest Europe. b) The Lennoxtown boulder train in the Forth Valley, central Scotland 3.18 Different methods for ...
... rock. The core barrels employed enable single cores of 9.5 m length and 57 mm diameter to be retrieved, and sequential drilling can penetrate up to 300 m below the seabed. The vessel is used for a wide range of scientific investigations ...
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 |