Book Review: QUATERNARY ENVIRONMENTS. M.A.J. Williams, D.L. Dunkerley, P. de Dekker, A.P. Kershaw and T. Stokes. Edward Arnold (London), 1993. No. of pages: xviii+329. Price: £16.95. ISBN 0-7131-6590-1.
✍ Scribed by Barber, K.
- Book ID
- 101226158
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 32 KB
- Volume
- 18
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0899-8418
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✦ Synopsis
Quaternary environmental change has become one of the most dynamic and expanding fields of interdisciplinary natural science, in both the research and the teaching context, as well as in the popular media. The international body INQUA has expanded greatly since its foundation in 1929; the British Quaternary Research Association (QRA) now has over 1000 members and will soon celebrate 30 years of expansion; several major international journals have been founded and are flourishing-for example Quaternary Research (1970), Quaternary Science Re6iews (1981), the Journal of Quaternary Science (by the QRA, 1986) and The Holocene (1991)-and the flow of textbooks and edited research volumes has increased rapidly. Recent examples include:
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