Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science

2. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-444-53643-3
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Technology

Buch, Englisch, 3888 Seiten

The second revised edition of the Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science, Four Volume Set, provides both students and professionals with an up-to-date reference work on this important and highly varied area of research. There are lots of new articles, and many of the articles that appeared in the first edition have been updated to reflect advances in knowledge since 2006, when the original articles were written. The second edition will contain about 375 articles, written by leading experts around the world. This major reference work is richly illustrated with more than 3,000 illustrations, most of them in colour.


- Research in the Quaternary sciences has advanced greatly in the last 10 years, especially since topics like global climate change, geologic hazards and soil erosion were put high on the political agenda. This second edition builds upon its award-winning predecessor to provide the reader assured quality along with essential updated coverage
- Contains 357 broad-ranging articles (4310 pages) written at a level that allows undergraduate students to understand the material, while providing active researchers with a ready reference resource for information in the field. Facilitates teaching and learning
- The first edition was regarded by many as the most significant single overview of Quaternary science ever, yet Editor-in-Chief, Scott Elias, has managed to surpass that in this second edition by securing even more expert reviews whilst retaining his renowned editorial consistency that enables readers to navigates seamlessly from one unfamiliar topic to the next

Zielgruppe

<p>(Under)/(post) graduates working in any aspect of Quaternary sciences, researchers and academic faculty in this area, also government employees.</p>

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Elias, Scott

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geologie Stratigraphie
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Historische Geologie, Geochronologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Historical Overview; Quaternary Climate Change; Dating Quaternary Events; Trapped Electron Dating Methods; Paleomagnetic dating; Chemical Dating Methods; Biological Dating Methods; Sediment Dating Methods; Glacial Landforms; History of Quaternary Glaciations; Paleosols and Wind-Blown Sediments; Lake Level Studies; Quaternary Paleobotany (Palynology); Plant Macrofossils; Diatoms; Quaternary Vertebrate Records; Insect fossils; Paleoceanography; Ice Core Records; Humans in the Quaternary; Proglacial Lakes and Megafloods; Use of Quaternary Proxies in Forensic Science; Tree-ring Studies

Über Autor(innen)

Elias, Scott
Scott Elias grew up in Colorado, in the Rocky Mountain region of the western United States. He attended the University of Colorado, and got BA degree in Environmental Biology. He continued his academic career at the same university, and received his PhD in Environmental Biology in 1980. His thesis topic concerned paleoecology of Holocene-age peat deposits in arctic Canada, focusing on insect fossil analyses.

Following his PhD, Scott became a post-doctoral fellow under Prof. Alan Morgan in the Earth Science Department of the University of Waterloo, Ontario. He also spent six months as a visiting scientist at the Geobotanical Institute of the University of Berne, Switzerland, in 1981. Scott returned to the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR), University of Colorado, in 1982, and was a research associate and fellow of the institute during the next 20 years. His research continued to focus on paleoenvironmental reconstructions based on fossil insect assemblages. He has authored six books on paleoecology and natural history of Alaska, the Rocky Mountains, and the arid Southwest. In 2000, Scott accepted a lectureship in the Geography Department of Royal Holloway, University of London. He also has maintained an affiliation with INSTAAR. He is now a Reader in Physical Geography at Royal Holloway.