Colin V. Murray-Wallace, Colin D. Woodroffe

Quaternary Sea-Level Changes

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An important overview of Quaternary climates including detailed Pleistocene and Holocene sea-level changes, for researchers and graduate and advanced undergraduate students.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 504
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 1042g
• ISBN-13: 9780521820837
• ISBN-10: 0521820839
• Artikelnr.: 39631240

Autorenporträt

Colin V. Murray-Wallace is a Quaternary geologist and currently a Professor and Head of the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences in the University of Wollongong. His long-standing research interests have centred on Quaternary sea-level changes, neotectonics, carbonate depositional systems and amino acid racemization dating, and he has undertaken coastal field investigations in southern Australia, Vietnam, Hawaii and South Africa. Professor Murray-Wallace was project leader of IGCP (International Geological Correlation Program) project 437 (1999-2003) 'Coastal environmental change during sea-level highstands', and leader of the INQUA (International Union for Quaternary Research) Coastal and Marine Commission (2004-7). He has served as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Quaternary Science Reviews since 2008.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
1. Sea-level changes: the emergence of a Quaternary perspective
2. The causes of Quaternary sea-level changes
3. Palaeo sea-level indicators
4. Methods of dating Quaternary sea-level changes
5. Vertical displacement of shorelines
6. Pleistocene sea-level changes
7. Sea-level changes since the Last Glacial Maximum
8. Current and future sea-level changes
References
Index.