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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... isotope record from the mid Holocene Annual coral δ 18 O records from various sites in the Pacific and Indian Oceans Secular changes in magnetic declination and inclination as observed in London, Rome and Boston Palaeomagnetic dating of ...
... isotope record Comparison of biogenic silica and diatom records from Lake Baikal with the marine oxygen isotope signal from ODP site 677 The sequence of loess–palaeosol units preserved at the Baoji site on the Loess Plateau, China ...
... isotope record for the last 2.1 Ma and the spectral signal of the 41 ka and 100 ka cycles from this record. b) A measure of the strength of correlation between the stacked oxygen isotope record and Milankovitch forcing over the past 1 ...
... isotope signal, and the consequent ramifications for subdividing and correlating the Quaternary record. Over the last decade or so, it has been the polar icecore records that have taken us into new areas of Quaternary science, revealing ...
... isotope content. Pioneered by Cesare Emiliani, oxygen isotope analysis is now regarded as one of the most powerful tools in Quaternary stratigraphy and palaeoenvironmental reconstruction (section 3.10), and continuous isotopic records ...
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Reconstructing Quaternary Environments John Lowe,Mike Walker,Mike J. C. Walker Aucun aperçu disponible - 2014 |
Reconstructing Quaternary Environments J. John Lowe,Mike Walker,Mike J. C. Walker Aucun aperçu disponible - 2014 |