Quaternary science msc royal holloway, university of london. Purchase encyclopedia of quaternary science 2nd edition. Encyclopedia of quaternary science 1st edition elsevier. With over 360 articles and 2,600 pages, many in fullcolor, the encyclopedia of quaternary science provides broad ranging, uptodate articles on all of the major topics in the field. Overview map of the lake silvaplana catchment area, including the coring position, meteorological station and the glacier extent during the little ice age and in 1991. Articles in press latest issue article collections all issues submit your article.
The second, the encyclopedia of quaternary science elias, 2007, is probably the most significant collective work on quaternary science to date piotrowski, 2007. The journal of quaternary science publishes original papers on any field of quaternary research, and aims to promote and wider appreciation and deeper understanding of the earths history during the last 2. Tooth fragments of jeffersons ground sloth megalonyx jeffersonii and american mastodon mammut americanum recovered from lower carp lake near yel. The quaternary period saw the extinctions of numerous predominantly megafaunal species. Quaternary science plays an integral part in such important issues for modern society as groundwater resources and contamination, sea level change, geologic hazards earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, and soil erosion. Quaternary history encyclopedia of life support systems. Encyclopedia of quaternary science 2nd edition core.
It was established in 1982 by pergamon press and is currently published by elsevier. The tertiary period 2, 65 to 2 million years ago, encompasses the rebuilding of the animal kingdom at the end of the great cretaceous extinction. Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of the. Regions a and b indicate the areas where freshwater is discharged in the first freshwater integration fwn and the second. Encyclopedia of quaternary science, 2nd edition, 20. Year to year variation in rainfall has a dramatic impact on the health and prosperity of people in the tropics, particularly in so. Quaternary the cenozoic era 1, 65 million years ago to the present, is divided into two periods, the tertiary and the quaternary. Received 10 january 2015 received in revised form 17 june 2015 accepted 19 june 2015 available online xxx keywords.
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The field studies the current ice age and the recent interstadial, between numerous glaciations, the holocene, and uses proxy evidence to reconstruct the past environments during this period to infer the climatic and environmental changes that have occurred. Buy encyclopedia of quaternary science 2nd revised edition by scott elias professor isbn. Precipitation originates mostly from the atlantic ocean and is transported over the continent by. N1 the quaternary sciences constitute a dynamic, multidisciplinary field of research that has been growing in scientific and societal importance in recent years. Kaplan e a department of ecological sciences, millennium institute of ecology and biodiversity, center for climate research and resilience, and millennium nucleus.
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