Ostracoda as Proxies for Quaternary Climate Change - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ostracoda as Proxies for Quaternary Climate Change write by . This book was released on 2012-12-31. Ostracoda as Proxies for Quaternary Climate Change available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ostracod crustaceans, common microfossils in marine and freshwater sedimentary records, supply evidence of past climatic conditions via indicator species, transfer function and mutual climatic range approaches as well as the trace element and stable isotope geochemistry of their shells. As methods of using ostracods as Quaternary palaeoclimate proxies have developed, so too has a critical awareness of their complexities, potential and limitations. This book combines up-to-date reviews (covering previous work and summarising the state of the art) with presentations of new, cutting-edge science (data and interpretations as well as methodological developments) to form a major reference work that will constitute a durable bench-mark in the science of Ostracoda and Quaternary climate change. - In-depth and focused treatment of palaeoclimate applications - Provides durable benchmark and guide for all future work on ostracods - Presents new, cutting-edge science
Quaternary Environmental Change in Southern Africa
Quaternary Environmental Change in Southern Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Quaternary Environmental Change in Southern Africa write by Jasper Knight. This book was released on 2016-06-23. Quaternary Environmental Change in Southern Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ongoing climate change necessitates advances in our understanding of the interrelationships between climate, landscape-shaping processes and human activity over long time periods, especially in areas that are already climatically stressed. This volume presents new ideas on macroscale landscape evolution; mountain, fluvial and aeolian processes; and environments in southern Africa, a key region in the story of human evolution during the last two million years. Interdisciplinary in scope, it brings together an international team of experts to synthesise the latest research and understanding of landscape-human relationships in this region. It incorporates results from the emerging fields of geoarchaeology and cultural landscapes and utilises the latest data and analytical techniques. A key reference for researchers studying hominid evolution, geoarchaeology and environmental change, it provides a benchmark study of southern African landscape evolution during the Quaternary. It will also appeal to professionals and policymakers with interests in future human-landscape evolution in southern Africa.
Encyclopedia of Paleoclimatology and Ancient Environments
Encyclopedia of Paleoclimatology and Ancient Environments - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Encyclopedia of Paleoclimatology and Ancient Environments write by Vivien Gornitz. This book was released on 2008-10-31. Encyclopedia of Paleoclimatology and Ancient Environments available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One of Springer’s Major Reference Works, this book gives the reader a truly global perspective. It is the first major reference work in its field. Paleoclimate topics covered in the encyclopedia give the reader the capability to place the observations of recent global warming in the context of longer-term natural climate fluctuations. Significant elements of the encyclopedia include recent developments in paleoclimate modeling, paleo-ocean circulation, as well as the influence of geological processes and biological feedbacks on global climate change. The encyclopedia gives the reader an entry point into the literature on these and many other groundbreaking topics.
Handbook of Sea-Level Research
Handbook of Sea-Level Research - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Handbook of Sea-Level Research write by Ian Shennan. This book was released on 2015-02-19. Handbook of Sea-Level Research available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Measuring sea-level change – be that rise or fall – is one of the most pressing scientific goals of our time and requires robust scientific approaches and techniques. This Handbook aims to provide a practical guide to readers interested in this challenge, from the initial design of research approaches through to the practical issues of data collection and interpretation from a diverse range of coastal environments. Building on thirty years of international research, the Handbook comprises 38 chapters that are authored by leading experts from around the world. The Handbook will be an important resource to scientists interested and involved in understanding sea-level changes across a broad range of disciplines, policy makers wanting to appreciate our current state of knowledge of sea-level change over different timescales, and many teachers at the university level, as well as advanced-level undergraduates and postgraduate research students, wanting to learn more about sea-level change. Additional resources for this book can be found at: www.wiley.com\go\shennan\sealevel
Reconstructing Quaternary Environments
Reconstructing Quaternary Environments - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reconstructing Quaternary Environments write by J. John Lowe. This book was released on 2014-10-28. Reconstructing Quaternary Environments available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
