Late Quaternary Environmental Change

Late Quaternary Environmental Change
Author: Martin Bell
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 377
Release: 2014-07-10
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1317904796

Late Quaternary Environmental Change addresses the interaction between human agency and other environmental factors in the landscapes, particularly of the temperate zone. Taking an ecological approach, the authors cover the last 20,000 years during which the climate has shifted from arctic severity to the conditions of the present interglacial environment.

Late Quaternary Environmental Change

Late Quaternary Environmental Change
Author: Martin Bell
Publisher: Pearson Education
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2005
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780130333445

"This text will be essential reading for students in archaeology, geography, environmental science, geology, history and environmental conservation. It will also be of relevance to professional archaeologists and anyone with an interest in the study of archaeology and environmental history."--BOOK JACKET.

Quaternary Environmental Change in Southern Africa

Quaternary Environmental Change in Southern Africa
Author: Jasper Knight
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 465
Release: 2016-06-23
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1107055792

This book provides a benchmark study of southern African landscape evolution during the Quaternary, for researchers, professionals and policymakers.

Ice Age Earth

Ice Age Earth
Author: Alastair G. Dawson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2013-06-17
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1135853568

Ice Age Earth provides the first detailed review of global environmental change in the Late Quaternary. Significant geological and climatic events are analysed within a review of glacial and periglacial history. The melting history of the last ice sheets reveals that complex, dynamic and catastrophic change occurred, change which affected the circulation of the atmosphere and oceans and the stability of the Earth's crust.

Paleoclimate, Global Change and the Future

Paleoclimate, Global Change and the Future
Author: Keith D. Alverson
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2013-04-17
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3642558283

This book provides a synthesis of the past decade of research into global changes that occurred in the earth system in the past. Focus is achieved by concentrating on those changes in the Earth's past environment that best inform our evaluation of current and future global changes and their consequences for human populations. The book stands as a ten year milestone in the operation of the Past Global Changes (PAGES) Project of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP). It seeks to provide a quantitative understanding of the Earth’s environment in the geologically recent past and to define the envelope of natural environmental variability against which anthropogenic impacts on the Earth System may be assessed. A set of color overhead transparencies based on the figures in the book is available free on the PAGES website (www.pages-igbp.org) for use in teaching and lecturing.

Holocene Climate Change and Environment

Holocene Climate Change and Environment
Author: Navnith Kumaran
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 693
Release: 2021-09-24
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0323900860

Holocene Climate Change and Environment presents detailed, diverse case studies from a range of environmental and geological regions on the Indian subcontinent which occupies the central part of the monsoon domain. This book examines Holocene events at different time intervals based on a new, high-resolution, multi-proxy records (pollen, spores, NPP, diatoms, grain size characteristics, total organic carbon, carbon/nitrogen ratio, stable isotopes) and other physical tools from all regions of India. It also covers new facilities in chronological study and luminescence dating, which have added a new dimension toward understanding the Holocene glacial retreats evolution of coastal landforms, landscape dynamics and human evolution. Each chapter is presented with a unified structure for ease of access and application, including an introduction, geographic details, field work and sampling techniques, methods, results and discussion. This detailed examination of such an important region provides key insights in climate modeling and global prediction systems. - Provides data and research from environmentally and geologically diverse regions across the Indian subcontinent - Presents an integrated and interdisciplinary approach, including considerations of human impacts - Features detailed case studies that include methods and data, allowing for applications related to research and global modeling

Quaternary of the Levant

Quaternary of the Levant
Author: Yehouda Enzel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 789
Release: 2017-04-27
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1316841847

Quaternary of the Levant presents up-to-date research achievements from a region that displays unique interactions between the climate, the environment and human evolution. Focusing on southeast Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Israel, it brings together over eighty contributions from leading researchers to review 2.5 million years of environmental change and human cultural evolution. Information from prehistoric sites and palaeoanthropological studies contributing to our understanding of 'out of Africa' migrations, Neanderthals, cultures of modern humans, and the origins of agriculture are assessed within the context of glacial-interglacial cycles, marine isotope cycles, plate tectonics, geochronology, geomorphology, palaeoecology and genetics. Complemented by overview summaries that draw together the findings of each chapter, the resulting coverage is wide-ranging and cohesive. The cross-disciplinary nature of the volume makes it an invaluable resource for academics and advanced students of Quaternary science and human prehistory, as well as being an important reference for archaeologists working in the region.

Late Quaternary Environmental Change

Late Quaternary Environmental Change
Author: Martin Bell
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Total Pages: 296
Release: 1992
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

Adopting an ecological approach to archaeology this book discusses the relationships between people and environments against a backdrop of climate change.

Coastal Evolution

Coastal Evolution
Author: R. W. G. Carter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 548
Release: 1994
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780521598903

A 1995 review of how shorelines have changed since the last Ice Age, and what this implies for future environmental management.