Alastair G Dawson

Ice Age Earth

Late Quaternary Geology and Climate

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Ice Age Earth provides the first detailed review of global environmental change in the Late Quaternary. It should prove essential reading for all students interested in Quaternary environments.

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Essential reading for all students interested in quaternary environments, this book focuses on changes in the Earth's geology and climate between the last interglacial period and the final melting of the last great ice sheets.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 1991
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 158mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 685g
• ISBN-13: 9780415015677
• ISBN-10: 0415015677
• Artikelnr.: 21034511

Autorenporträt

Alastair G. Dawson

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Chapter 1. Introduction 2. Ocean Sediments and Ice Cores
3. Ice Age Palaeoclimates and Computer Simulations 4. Glaciation History
from the Last Interglacial to the Last Glacial Maximum 5. The Melting of
the Last Great Ice Sheets 6. Ice Age Periglacial Environments 7. Lakes,
Bogs and Mines 8. Rivers 9. Ice Age Aeolian Activity 10. Late Quarternary
Volcanic Activity 11. Crustal and Sub-Crustal Effects 12. Late Quarternary
Sea Level changes 13. Milankovitch Cycles and Late Quarternary Climate
Change