This third edition of Reconstructing Quaternary Environments has been completely revised
and updated to provide a new account of the history and scale of environmental changes …

We are in the grip of global warming: sea levels are rising; glaciers are melting, Arctic sea
ice is thinning, meteorological events are becoming more extreme. But how do these …

The book's focus is on the interactions between the geological, biological and hydrological
processes that have given rise to the present day distribution of geomorphic, biogeographic …

The Holocene provides students, researchers and lay-readers with the remarkable story of
how the natural world has been transformed since the end of the last Ice Age around 15,000 …

Raymond S. Bradley provides his readers with a comprehensive and up-to-date review of all
of the important methods used in paleoclimatic reconstruction, dating and paleoclimate …

Both the number and diversity of studies of Holocene climate variability have expanded
dramatically over the last decade, as new regions around the world are investigated, new …

The field of paleoclimatology relies on physical, chemical, and biological proxies of past
climate changes that have been preserved in natural archives such as glacial ice, tree rings …

Within the geological science of paleoclimatology, the earth's pre-Quaternary period--more
than two million years ago--has been studied systematically only since the 1960's, when …

The Oxford Handbook of Historical Ecology and Applied Archaeology presents theoretical
discussions, methodological outlines, and case-studies describing the field of overlap …

Environmental variables such as temperature and salinity cannot be directly measured for
the past. Such variables do, however, influence the chemistry and biology of the marine …