Quaternary Sea-Level Changes: a Global Perspective

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An important overview of Quaternary climates including detailed Pleistocene and Holocene sea-level changes, for researchers and graduate and advanced undergraduate students.

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Full title :Quaternary Sea-Level Changes : a Global Perspective / Colin V. Murray-Wallace, Colin D. Woodroffe.

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An important overview of Quaternary climates including detailed Pleistocene and Holocene sea-level changes, for researchers and graduate and advanced undergraduate students.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2014.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Language:eng
Publication Date:2014.

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Description:1 online resource (504 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781139024440, 1139024442, 9780521820837, 0521820839
oclc:on1167584259
LC Classification:GC89
Dewey Decimal:551.45/8

Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; 1 Sea-level changes: the emergence of a Quaternary perspective; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 The Quaternary Period; 1.3 Sea-level changes: historical development of ideas; 1.4 Observations from classical antiquity until the nineteenth century; 1.4.1 Early Mediterranean studies; 1.4.2 Eighteenth-century writings on universal changes to the Earth; 1.4.3 Diluvial Theory -- the universal flood; 1.4.4 The Temple of Serapis: a compelling case for relative sea-level change

1.4.5 Lavoisier and the concepts of transgression and regression1.5 Glacial action and recognition of the Ice Ages; 1.5.1 Louis Agassiz and the Glacial Theory; 1.5.2 The Croll-Milankovitch Hypothesis; 1.6 Vertical changes in land and sea level related to Quaternary climate; 1.6.1 Charles Darwin and James Dana; 1.6.2 Insights from around the world; 1.7 Evolution of ideas in the twentieth century; 1.7.1 Developments in Europe; 1.7.2 Advances in geochemistry and geochronology; 1.7.3 Oxygen-isotope records from marine sediments and ice cores; 1.7.4 Geophysical models of sea-level changes

1.7.5 Sequence stratigraphy1.7.6 International concern and …

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From 10 thousand years ago History Holocene Geologic Period Limite pléistocène-holocène Mer -- Niveau Paléo-océanographie -- Holocène Paleoceanography Paleoceanography -- Holocene Pleistocene-Holocene boundary Sea level Sea level -- History