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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... , this is marked by the upper limit of icepolished bedrock above which the rock surfaces show evidence of prolonged frost shattering (photograph by Sven Lukas, Queen Mary University of London, UK). Where end moraines are found within.
... moraines are found within areas formerly covered by glacier ice, further problems of interpretation are encountered. There has been considerable debate over whether such moraines are, strictly speaking, recessional, in that they formed ...
... moraines' mark the maximal limits (Figure 2.6a) and initial recessional stages of the last (Weichselian) ... moraine' that is widely applied to these features may not always be appropriate, since some segments comprise glaciofluvial or ...
... moraine belts named (from south to north) theBrandenburg, Frankfurt and Pomeranian Moraines. These are not single structures, however, for each comprises a narrow band of subparallel, sometimes branching and occasionally linked ridges ...
... moraines implies ice retreat northward from the Brandenburg Moraine around 19 ka, with retreat from the Frankfurt and Pomeranian Moraines c. 18 ka and c. 16 ka, respectively (Heine et al., 2009). These ages are broadly confirmed by more ...
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