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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 undergraduat

Who reads Reconstructing Quaternary Environments?

Author

Lowe, Joseph John;Walker, Mike J C

Publisher

Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781317753711

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Mathematics, Geology