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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... Hence, the deepsea sequence provides an independent, continuous and unique climatostratigraphic template against which the often fragmented terrestrial sequences can be compared (Figure 1.6). Correlations between the marine isotope ...
... hence the standard nomenclature of Günz, Mindel and Riss glacials can be used only in a very general sense. Similarly in North America, the terms 'Kansan' and 'Nebraskan' glacial periods and 'Yarmouthian' and 'Aftonian' interglacials ...
... hence contemporary explanations of longterm climatic change have tended to focus on the factors that have given rise to both the regularity and frequency of climatic fluctuations. The hypothesis that has attracted the greatest attention ...
... Hence, a proper understanding of the nature and origin of glacial landforms is necessary if this type of evidence is to be used to determine the former extent of Pleistocene glacier ice. Fifth, mapping of the upper limits of glaciers ...
... hence the eastern ice margin cannot be clearly delimited. In addition, geomorphological and geophysical evidence suggest that the ice sheet had a relatively low profile, low summit elevation, and extensive elongated lobes at the ice ...
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