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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... Landforms that developed under a previous climatic regime have often survived, albeit sometimes in a much modified form, as 'relict' or 'fossil' features. Analysis of these can often provide valuable information about the nature of the ...
... landforms. Moreover, it must be emphasized that there is frequently a close relationship between geomorphological evidence and lithological evidence (Chapter 3) and that, wherever possible, the two should be used in conjunction in the ...
... landform assemblages and a detailed knowledge of their genesis. It also needs an eye for detail, some training in field mapping and surveying techniques, and a knowledge of aerial photographs and satellite images, as the mapping of ...
... landforms must be obtained by instrumental measurements in the field. The comparison of altitudes of landforms or stratigraphic horizons, especially from widely separated localities, requires a common geodetic datum, 1 a plane or point ...
... Hills in the Scottish Highlands (from Benn & Ballantyne, 2005). The nature and distribution of glacial landforms enable the areal extent and thickness of the former ice mass to be determined (copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd).
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