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 83
... suggests an older age for the Olduvai event (section 5.5.1.2), and this has been confirmed by calculations based on ... suggesting a major change in global climate dynamics (Lisiecki & Raymo, 2007). In deep-ocean cores from the North ...
... suggested that sea levels would fall by 350–400 ft (c. 110–130 m) during a glacial phase, a figure that is in remarkably close agreement with more recent estimates. In addition to its effects on global sea levels, the results of the ...
... suggest that the results of research into ocean sediments have revolutionized our view of the Quaternary (Imbrie & Imbrie, 1979). In one sense, trying to reconstruct environmental changes from terrestrial evidence is like trying to ...
... suggests that as much as a million years of sedimentary history may be missing from the stratigraphic record in ... suggested correlations between those stages shown in Figure 1.6 must be regarded as no more than a provisional ...
... suggest that global climate had cooled, albeit in an oscillatory manner, from around 3.6 Ma (Mudelsee & Raymo, 2005) ... suggests that some change (or changes) internal to the global climate system must have been responsible (see section ...
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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