Reconstructing Quaternary Environments

John Lowe and Mike Walker.

ISBN 10: 0415740754 / ISBN 13: 9780415740753

Editore: New York Routledge, 2015

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ISBN 0415740754. Hardback. Third edition (2015) of 1984 original. No dust jacket; bound in blue boards with white lettering. Very slight wear to corners of boards; otherwise tight, sound and unmarked in Fine condition. Codice articolo 4204789

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Titolo: Reconstructing Quaternary Environments

Casa editrice: New York Routledge

Data di pubblicazione: 2015

Legatura: Hardcover

Condizione: Fine

Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dustjacket

autografato: No Signature

Edizione: Later Edition.

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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 undergraduates, postgraduates and professionals in Earth Science, Environmental Science, Physical Geography, Geology, Botany, Zoology, Ecology, Archaeology and Anthropology

Informazioni sull?autore:

John Lowe is former Gordon Manley Professor of Geography and Quaternary Science, and now Emeritus Professor of Quaternary Science, Royal Holloway University of London.

Mike Walker is Emeritus Professor of Quaternary Science, School of Archaeology, History and Anthropology at Trinity Saint David, University of Wales, Lampeter, and Honorary Professor, Aberystwyth University.