Plant Life of the Quaternary Cold Stages - Evidence From the British Isles

Klappentext Provides an interpretation of past environments through the analysis of the plant fossil record. Zusammenfassung This 2000 book brings together fossil record information on the glacial stage flora of Britain and Ireland. Using this data! the author provides an interpretation of the environments found during some of the most extraordinary periods in the earth's most recent history. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Geological setting; 3. Sedimentary environments and taphonomy; 4. The data tables; 5. The sites; 6. Identification of the flora; 7. The flora; 8. Representation of taxa in the fossil record; 9. Biological aspects of the cold stage flora; 10. Habitats of the cold stages; 11. The present distribution of taxa found fossil; 12. The vegetation: types and their flora; 13. Evidence of climate; 14. A wider view of cold stage biota; 15. Origin and fate of the cold stage stadial flora; 16. A final word; References; Appendix - works consulted in the identification of macroscopic remains.

Product details

• Authors: R. G. West, R.G. West, WEST R G
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.04.2011
• EAN: 9780521188920
• ISBN: 978-0-521-18892-0
• No. of pages: 342
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Botany