Environmental Change - Brossura

Goudie, Andrew S.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0198741359 ISBN 13: 9780198741350

Casa editrice: Oxford University Press, 1983

Riassunto

This book examines the environmental changes of the last three million years. It is a concise, modern survey which details the developments in the study of environmental change. There is a wide geographical coverage, using a minimum of technical language, so that it is accessible to non-geomorphologists and non-geologists. Traditional and recent techniques for the study of the Pleistocene are described and then the chronology, nature, and effects of the major events are outlined. This is followed by a discussion of the Holocene and a detailed analysis of changes during the period of meteorological observations. The book ends with sections on sea-level changes and the causes of climatic change. This new edition has been extensively rewritten. The references and guides to reading have been up-dated and many new figures included. Additional information is provided on new techniques for environmental reconstruction, on climatic sequences preserved in ocean sediments and loess, on sea-level curves, and on the causes of climatic change.

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L'autore:

David Anderson teaches geography at Eton College and is Senior Research Associate at the Oxford Centre for the Environment. Andrew Goudie is Master of St Cross College, Oxford, and Professor of Geography at the Oxford Centre for the Environment. Adrian Parker is a Reader in the Department of Anthropology and Geography, Oxford Brookes University.

Product Description:

Book by Goudie Andrew S

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0198741359
• ISBN 13: 9780198741350
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 268