Quaternary Deserts and Climatic 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 Quaternary Deserts and Climatic Change write by A.S. Alsharhan. This book was released on 2020-08-27. Quaternary Deserts and Climatic Change available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. These proceedings record the results of climate change in many areas which are hyper-arid deserts today but which, almost cyclically, at intervals of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years, have had a much more humid climate.
Climate Change in Deserts
Climate Change in Deserts - 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 Climate Change in Deserts write by Martin Williams. This book was released on 2014-08-11. Climate Change in Deserts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Reconstructing climatic changes in deserts and their margins at a variety of scales in space and time, this book draws upon evidence from land and sea, including desert dunes, wind-blown dust, river and lake sediments, glacial moraines, plant and animal fossils, isotope geochemistry, speleothems, soils, and prehistoric archaeology. The book summarises the Cenozoic evolution of the major deserts of the Americas, Eurasia, Africa and Australia, and the causes of historic floods and droughts. The book then considers the causes and consequences of desertification and proposes four key conditions for achieving ecologically sustainable use of natural resources in arid and semi-arid areas. Climate Change in Deserts is an invaluable reference for researchers and advanced students interested in the climate and geomorphology of deserts: geographers, geologists, ecologists, archaeologists, soil scientists, hydrologists, climatologists and natural resource managers.
Quaternary Environmental Change in the Tropics
Quaternary Environmental Change in the Tropics - 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 the Tropics write by Sarah E. Metcalfe. This book was released on 2012-08-24. Quaternary Environmental Change in the Tropics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The global climate changes that led to the expansion and contraction of high latitude ice sheets during the Quaternary period were associated with equally dramatic changes in tropical environments. These included shifts in vegetation zones, changes in the hydrology and ecology of lakes and rivers, and fluctuations in the size of mountain glaciers and sandy deserts. Until recently it was thought that such changes were triggered by fluctuations in the distribution of polar ice cover. Now there is increasing recognition that the tropics themselves have acted as drivers of global climate change over a range of timescales. The aim of Quaternary Environmental Change in the Tropics is to provide a synthesis of the changes that occurred in tropical terrestrial and marine systems during the Pleistocene and Holocene, complementing data-derived reconstructions with output from state-of-the-art climate models. It is targeted at final-year undergraduate students and research specialists, but will provide an introduction to tropical Quaternary research for a variety of other readers.
Abstracts of the International Conference on Quaternary Deserts and Climatic Change
Abstracts of the International Conference on Quaternary Deserts and Climatic 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 Abstracts of the International Conference on Quaternary Deserts and Climatic Change write by Jāmiʻat al-Imārāt al-ʻArabīyah al-Muttaḥidah. This book was released on 1995. Abstracts of the International Conference on Quaternary Deserts and Climatic Change available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Late Quaternary Climate Change and Human Adaptation in Arid China
Late Quaternary Climate Change and Human Adaptation in Arid China - 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 Late Quaternary Climate Change and Human Adaptation in Arid China write by D.B. Madsen. This book was released on 2011-09-22. Late Quaternary Climate Change and Human Adaptation in Arid China available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Due to political pressures, prior to the 1990s little was known about the nature of human foraging adaptations in the deserts, grasslands, and mountains of north western China during the last glacial period. Even less was known about the transition to agriculture that followed. Now open to foreign visitation, there is now an increasing understanding of the foraging strategies which led both to the development of millet agriculture and to the utilization of the extreme environments of the Tibetan Plateau. This text explores the transition from the foraging societies of the Late Paleolithic to the emergence of settled farming societies and the emergent pastoralism of the middle Neolithic striving to help answer the diverse and numerous questions of this critical transitional period. * Examines the transition from foraging societies of the Late Paleolithic to the emergence of settled farming societies and the emergent pastoralism of the middle Neolithic* Explores explanatory models for the links between climate change and cultural change that may have influenced the development of millet agriculture* Reviews the relationship between climate change and population expansions and contraditions during the late Quaternary
