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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... Milankovitch was therefore able to obtain estimates for radiation inputs at different latitudes, and from these to reconstruct longterm temperature changes. The theory was first published in 1924 and initially found favour with many ...
... Milankovitch hypothesis (Imbrie & Imbrie, 1979). The first clue came from the dating of coral reefs around the island of Barbados, which showed high sealevel stands (reflecting warmer episodes) at around 82 ka, 105 ka and 125 ka, which ...
... Milankovitch forcing, which suggests that some change (or changes) internal to the global climate system must have been responsible (see section 7.3). Figure 1.10 Variations in temperature, dust flux, CO 2 and CH 4 from the EPICA Dome C ...
... in climate during the Quaternary, highresolution proxy records provide evidence of rapid climatic variations, frequently of large amplitude, which are superimposed on the orbitally driven cycles. These shortlived 'sub Milankovitch'
... Milankovitch' events occur over timescales varying from centuries to millennia and have been found, inter alia, in icecore records from Greenland (North Greenland Ice Core Project Members, 2004), in Chinese cave speleothems (Wang et al ...
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