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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... while others have been formed by the bulldozing action of the ice margin, which has thrust and deformed superficial deposits or pre Quaternary strata (Figure 2.7). Figure 2.6 a) Maximal limits of the Late Weichselian ice.
... deposits as ice invaded estuarine localities (Sissons, 1979), and on organic debris buried beneath till (MacLeod et al., 2011). The freshness and relatively unweathered nature of the landforms have enabled the extent of the readvance to ...
... deposits Subglacial debris deposited beneath moving ice is frequently streamlined in the direction of ice movement (Figure 2.3). Streamlined glacial deposits are often found in glaciated landscapes and range in size from smallscale ...
... deposits have provided the most striking images of the major arterial flow systems of the last great ice sheets. However, drumlins remain enigmatic features, for while it is generally agreed that they form in the subglacial environment ...
... deposits, deltas, spits, shingle ridges, stacks, caves and coral reefs. Evidence for sealevel change can also be found offshore in the form of submerged landforms, including caves, platforms, beaches, reefs and river valleys. Mapping ...
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