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Natural Environmental Change (Routledge Introductions to Environment Series)

By A.M. Mannion

Book information

Year
1999
ISBN
0415139325, 9780415139328, 020301278X, 9780203012789
LCC
GE149 .M37 1999
Open Library ID
OL365542M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3029189 bytes)
Edition
Ill
Pages
216\217
Topic
Biology Ecology
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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.

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