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| View Larger Image | Quaternary Environments
by Martin Williams, David Dunkerley, Patrick De Decker, Pater Kershaw, John Chappell
| | List Price: | $60.50 | | Price: | $54.45 | | You Save: | $6.05 (10%) |  | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours | | | | | Sales Rank: | 745721 | | Studio: | A Hodder Arnold Publication | | | Binding: | Paperback | | Number Of Pages: | 352 | | Publication Date: | October 29, 1998 | | Publisher: | A Hodder Arnold Publication |
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Product Description
The second edition of this authoritative introduction to the global environmental fluctuations of the Quaternary period has been thoroughly revised and updated, and now includes two new chapters: one on Quaternary soils and sediments, and one on the Milankovitch theory and its implications for Quaternary climatic oscillations. The book draws on examples from every continent, including Antarctica, and features a superb range of maps and illustrations. The time span covered includes relevant events during the Tertiary which set the stage for the Quaternary glaciations and associated changes in climate, vegetation, and prehistoric human development. Focusing on the interactions between geological, biological and hydrological processes, the book explores the effects of accelerating human impact on the environment and considers how far evidence from the Quaternary may be useful in predicting future environmental change. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 3.5 based on 2 reviews)
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Quaternary Environments 
This book is very valuable for getting information about Quaternary environmental changes of our earth. It includes wide variety of methods of reconstructing Pleistocene environments and dating tools. General description is very neat and suitable for easy reading
February 08, 2008 | |
quaternary 
this book that concerns with quaternary environments, is one of the best reviewed one. However, if it is comperated with "reconstructing quaternary environments" by walker and lowe, it is lack of some metods relating palaeogeographical reconstructing.
March 15, 2006 | |
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