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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... Europe(Weichselian), the Alpine region of Europe(Würmian) and North America (Wisconsinan) can be considered as broad correlatives. The Ipswichian, Eemian, Riss– Würmian and Sangamonian 'temperate' records from each of these regions are ...
... of the Lateglacial in northwest Europe and the British Isles. The isotopic record is based on the GRIP ss08c icecore chronology, and the colder stadial episodes are indicated by dark shading. The radiocarbon timescales (right) are shown.
... Europe, it is now generally accepted that several of the established named stages must contain a number of separate episodes of cold or temperate character (Figure 1.6). Hence, the Cromerian Complex in the Netherlands is believed to ...
... Europe, dates from around 2.7 Ma (Haug et al., 2005), proxy data from deepocean cores suggest that global climate had cooled, albeit in an oscillatory manner, from around 3.6 Ma (Mudelsee & Raymo, 2005). In addition, the climatic cycles ...
... Europe and the USA, and selected areas such as some Pacific islands. It is now widely used to generate base surfaces for geomorphological mapping. The spatial resolution and accuracy of DEMs and DTMs depends on a number of factors ...
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