Reconstructing Quaternary EnvironmentsRoutledge, 10. juuli 2014 - 468 pages Examines the various forms of evidence used to establish the history and scale of environmenal changes during the Quaternary. The evidence is extremely diverse, ranging from landforms and sediments to fossil assemblages and isotope ratios, bringing the book fully up to date since its last publication. |
Contents
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Chapter 2 Geomorphological evidence | 18 |
Chapter 3 Lithological evidence | 85 |
Chapter 4 Biological evidence | 162 |
Chapter 5 Dating methods | 237 |
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Reconstructing Quaternary Environments John J. Lowe,Michael James Cawthorne Walker Snippet view - 1997 |
Reconstructing Quaternary Environments John J. Lowe,Michael James Cawthorne Walker Snippet view - 1997 |
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accumulation analysis areas assemblages atmospheric basin basis biozone carbon cave chronology climatic change correlation deglaciation deposits Devensian diatom edited environmental change environments episodes Europe example Figure flow fluctuations Foraminifera fossil geological glacier global Greenland hence Holocene ice cores ice sheet ice-core indicate inferred influence interglacial interstadial isotope record lake sediments landforms last cold stage last glacial last glacial maximum last interglacial Late Quaternary Lateglacial Laurentide ice sheet layers loess macrofossil marine material maximum methods models moraines North America North Atlantic northern ocean ostracod oxygen isotope palaeoclimatic Palaeoecology palaeoenvironmental palaeosols peat periglacial period permafrost plant macrofossils Pleistocene pollen precipitation proxy Quaternary Research Quaternary Science Reviews radiocarbon dating range ratios reconstruction reflect regions relative rock Ruddiman samples sedimentary sediments sequences shorelines soil species speleothem Stadial stratigraphic substage surface techniques temperature tephra terraces terrestrial timescale variations varve vegetation Younger Dryas