Natural Environmental Change (Routledge Introductions to Environment Series)

✍ Scribed by A.M. Mannion

• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 217
• Edition: Ill
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 historical and meteorological records. Final chapters detail the changes that have occured in high, middle and low lattitudes, and the book concludes with a critical assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of current understanding. An extensive bibliography will also prove invaluable to those studying in this area.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Series editors' preface......Page 10
List of figures......Page 12
List of tables......Page 15
List of boxes......Page 16
Author's preface......Page 17
Acknowledgements......Page 18
Introduction......Page 20
Natural environmental change: the long-term geological record......Page 34
The record of environmental change in ocean sediments......Page 52
The record of environmental change in ice cores......Page 69
The record of environmental change in continental archives......Page 83
The record of environmental change in tree rings and historical and meteorological records......Page 109
Environmental change in high latitudes......Page 125
Environmental change in middle latitudes......Page 142
Environmental change in low latitudes......Page 166
Conclusions......Page 183
Glossary......Page 191
Bibliography......Page 196
Index......Page 212