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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... episodes emerged. By the end of the nineteenth century, drift sheets of four separate glaciations (the Nebraskan, Kansan, Illinoian and Wisconsinan), along with deposits of three intervening interglacials (in descending order of age ...
... episodes. Moreover, a relationship was postulated (although not clearly articulated) between these climatic oscillations and the glacials and interglacials at higher latitudes. Similar relict drainage features in desert and savannah ...
... episodes. The first, and for many years the only, quantitative method for estimating the passage of time was varve chronology developed around the turn of the century by the Swedish geologist Gerard de Geer (section 5.4.2). A major ...
... episodes. Glacial stages have traditionally been regarded as protracted cold phases when the major expansions of ice sheets and glaciers took place, whereas stadials have been viewed as shorter cold episodes during which local ice ...
... episode on the basis of degree of vegetation development. In northwest Europe, both the interglacials and interstadials ... episodes; quantifying climatic change; conflicting proxy records for former climate; etc.) and, as a consequence ...
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