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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... range of field and laboratory techniques. Increasingly sophisticated methods of sedimentological analysis have offered new insights into the nature of Quaternary depositional environments, while the interpretation of Quaternary ...
... range of Quaternary time. Although the investigation of deepsea sediments actually began in the nineteenth century with the voyage of the British government research vessel HMS Challenger in 1872, it was not until the 1930s that the ...
... range of proxy indicators (oxygen isotopes, trace gases, chemical compounds, particulate matter) of past atmospheric and climatic conditions. Icecore data not only provide a temporal framework for Late Quaternary climatic change ...
... range of increasingly sophisticated models has since been developed to explore, in addition to atmospheric circulation, such diverse phenomena as ice sheet behaviour (Siegert & Dowdeswell, 2004), glacioisostatic effects (Peltier, 2002) ...
... spatial relationships of landforms in these regions can be estimated using a range of instruments. These include aneroid barometers, handheld (e.g. Abney) levels, surveyor's levels, theodolites and electronic distance measures.
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