Reconstructing Quaternary Environments

Michael J.C Walker J. John Lowe John Lowe Mike Walker J John Lowe

ISBN 10: 0131274686 / ISBN 13: 9780131274686

Published by Prentice-Hall, 2014

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pp. 688 3rd Edition.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Reconstructing Quaternary Environments
• Publisher: Prentice-Hall
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0131274686
• ISBN 13: 9780131274686
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 3rd Edition
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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

About the Author

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.