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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... glacial chronologies and interregional correlation. In the eastern Baltic lowlands, for example, the CRN evidence suggests that the last ice sheet advanced after c. 25 ka, reached its maximal extent by c. 21 ka and began to retreat c ...
... ice sheet formed over the SvalbardBarents Sea (Ingolfsson & Landvik, 2013). This extended to Svalbard in the far ... ice sheet (Figure 2.6a). More is known about the limits of the last Fennoscandian ice sheet along its western margin ...
... last ice sheet occurred towards the end of the Devensian cold stage, during the Dimlington Stadial (Rose, 1985). The limits (Figure 2.8) were initially inferred from geomorphological evidence, with products of the Late Devensian ice ...
... glacial landform assemblages that can be viewed at both regional and ... last BritishIrish ice sheet at its maximum extent (Figure 2.8). Third ... last ice sheet to be delimited (McCarroll & Ballantyne, 2000). CRN dating provides the ...
... glacial stage (Andrews & Dyke, 2007). For more than half its length, the ... last ice limit rests largely on stratigraphic evidence. Within the Late ... last ice sheet can be reconstructed (Dyke, 2004). Unlike western Europe, CRN dating ...
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