Global environments through the Quaternary : exploring environmental change / David E. Anderson, Andrew S. Goudie, and Adrian G. Parker
- Bib ID:
- 3914334
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Goudie, Andrew
- Edition:
- New ed. / Andrew Goudie, David Anderson, Adrian Parker.
- Description:
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- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007
- xiii, 359 p., [16] p. of plates : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9780198742265
- 0198742266
- Summary:
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"Global Environments through the Quaternary delves into the environmental changes that have taken place during the Quaternary: the two to three million years during which man has inhabited the Earth. Taking the reader through the Pleistocene and the Holocene, the book describes the evidence that has helped us to characterize environmental changes during these two epochs. It then explores the changes captured by more recent meteorological records in the period up to the present day. Current climate change research foretells of potentially catastrophic sea-level changes in the future; chapter seven examines sea-level changes throughout the Quaternary, putting current concerns into perspective. The book closes with a look at the environmental basis of climate change - and the impact of human activity upon it."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- 1. A framework for understanding environmental change
- 2. Sources of evidence for reconstructing past environments
- 3. Pleistocene climatic change and environments of mid- to high latitudes
- 4. Pleistocene environments of lower latitudes
- 5. Environmental change in post-glacial times
- 6. Environmental change during the period of meteorological records
- 7. Sea-level changes of the quaternary
- 8. Links between environmental change and human evolution and society
- 9. The causes of climatic change.
- Notes:
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- Previous ed.: published as Environmental change by Andrew Goudie. Oxford: Clarendon, 1992.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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