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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... widely employed in Quaternary palaeocean studies 4.40 Relative sea-level curves for the last 12 ka for the Western Mediterranean based on benthic Foraminifera-based transfer functions 4.41 a) Examples of siliceous skeletons (tests) of ...
... widely accepted as a separate unit because of the importance in the present interglacial of the evolution of the human environment. Indeed, it is this anthropogenic signature that is the hallmark of the Holocene, and which justifies its ...
... widely used methods in palaeoecology (section 4.2). Systematic investigations of other forms of biological evidence also began during the last century. Important contributions in vertebrate palaeontology included the work of Richard ...
... widely used in Quaternary science, although they clearly lack precision and, as a consequence, are often difficult to apply. Take, for example, the problem of recognizing an interglacial as opposed to an interstadial episode on the ...
... widely employed in land survey, but because it is not specifically concerned with landscape evolution, it has found less favour with Quaternary scientists. Geomorphological mapping,. 2 Geomorphological evidence 2.1 Introduction 2.2 ...
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 |