Natural environmental change : the last 3 million years / A.M. Mannion.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mannion, Antoinette M.

Series:

Routledge introductions to environment series.

Routledge introductions to environment series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Global environmental change.

Climatic changes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Natural Environmental Change offers a concise introduction to this key topic in the study of the environment, geography, and earth science. Illustrated throughout, each chapter provides a broad spectrum of international case studies and further reading guides. Introductory chapters examine the theories of environmental change and provide a summary of Earth history. The records of environmnetal change are then explained, as revealed by data from various archives such as ocean sediment, ice core, terrestrial deposits such as glacial moraines and lake sediments, tree rings, and historica

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Series editors' preface; List of figures; List of tables; List of boxes; Author's preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Natural environmental change: the long-term geological record; The record of environmental change in ocean sediments; The record of environmental change in ice cores; The record of environmental change in continental archives; The record of environmental change in tree rings and historical and meteorological records; Environmental change in high latitudes; Environmental change in middle latitudes; Environmental change in low latitudes

ConclusionsGlossary; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-192) and index.

ISBN:

1-134-77136-3

1-134-77137-1

0-203-01278-X

0-585-44692-X

1-280-33673-0

9780203012789

OCLC:

437078258