Landscape and Quaternary Environmental Change in New Zealand

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Shulmeister, James (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Paris : Atlantis Press : Imprint: Atlantis Press, 2017.
• Series: Atlantis Advances in Quaternary Science ; 3
• Subjects: Geography.; Climate.; Earth sciences.; Environment.; Geography, general.; Climate, general.; Environment, general.; Earth Sciences, general.

This book brings together an overview of the recent geological history, active earth and biological processes and human settlement of New Zealand. Topics covered include the very active neotectonic and volcanic setting. Mountain geomorphic processes are examined and new ideas about landsliding are h...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Quaternary tectonics of New Zealand
• 2. The southern end of the Pacific ring of fire: Quaternary volcanism in New Zealand
• 3. The climate of New Zealand through the Quaternary
• 4. Quaternary stratigraphy of Whanganui Basin – a globally significant archive
• 5. Blowing on the west wind. The most recent Quaternary Glaciation of New Zealand
• 6. Mountain process geomorphology: conceptual progress in the Southern Alps
• 7. Evolution and ecological change during the New Zealand Quaternary
• 8. The Human Landscape: Population origins, settlement and impact of human arrival in Aotearoa/New Zealand
• 9. Adrift in the Anthropocene.