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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... inferred climatic characteristics, is known as climatostratigraphy, and is considered further in Chapter 6. Attempts to subdivide the stratigraphic record from the land areas of the Northern Hemisphere into a coherent scheme of glacial ...
... inferred for the Brandenburg Moraines from an annually laminated lake sediment record in the Eifel district of Germany (Zolitschka et al., 2000). The lake sediment data suggest maximal ages for the Frankfurt and Pomeranian stages of ...
... inferred from geomorphological evidence, with products of the Late Devensian ice sheet ('Newer Drift') in England and Wales being differentiated from those of earlier glaciations ('Older Drift') on the basis of contrasts in degree of ...
... inferred (after Greenwood & Clark, 2009). In addition to the regional ice flow trends displayed by their long axes, the overall shape and distribution of drumlins can provide information on former glacier dynamics, such as basal ice ...
... inferred. Such reconstructions have improved substantially in recent years with the development of remote sensing techniques, for these enable many more features and much larger areas to be surveyed than is possible by mapping on the ...
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