Advances in Irish Quaternary Studies

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Coxon, Peter (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), McCarron, Stephen (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Mitchell, Fraser (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Paris : Atlantis Press : Imprint: Atlantis Press, 2017.
• Σειρά: Atlantis Advances in Quaternary Science ; 1
• Θέματα: Environment.; Climate change.; Remote sensing.; Geomorphology.; Geoecology.; Environmental geology.; Geoecology/Natural Processes.; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts.; Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry.

This book provides a new synthesis of the published research on the Quaternary of Ireland. It reviews a number of significant advances in the last three decades on the understanding of the pattern and chronology of the Irish Quaternary glacial, interglacial, floristic and occupation records. Those u...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Introduction: Advances in Irish Quaternary studies
• The pre-Quaternary landscape of Ireland
• Glacial geomorphology of the last Irish Ice Sheet
• The last Irish Ice Sheet: extent and chronology
• Deglaciation of the northern Irish Sea Basin
• Relative sea-level change around the Irish coast
• Periglacial and paraglacial processes, landforms and sediments
• The human colonisation of Ireland in northwest European context.