A Revised Correlation of Quaternary Deposits in the British Isles
A Revised Correlation of Quaternary Deposits in the British Isles

Author: D. Q. Bowen

Publisher: Geological Society of London

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 182

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The correlation and classification of Quaternary deposits is desirable for the following reasons: as an exercise in lithostratigraphy, to find out about palaeoclimate and to provide standard geographical information.

Untermassfeld
Untermassfeld

Author: Ralf-Dietrich Kahlke

Publisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 192

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The fossil site of Untermassfeld, near the town of Meiningen in Southern Thuringia, was discovered in 1978 and has been the subject of 25 field seasons. The digs have produced a stunning array of fossil vertebrate remains in stratigraphic context, making this unquestionably one of the most important Quaternary localities in Europe. In this volume the author provides the first full synthesis of the work, bringing the results up to date, and placing them in a broad context. With some 14,000 determinable vertebrate fossils, the Untermassfeld assemblage represents the most complete assemblage of the time span 1.2-0.9 Ma BP in the Western Palaearctic. Translated from German by Hans van Essen Edited by Adrian Lister

Early-Middle Pleistocene Transitions
Early-Middle Pleistocene Transitions

Author: Geological Society of London

Publisher: Geological Society of London

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 9781862391819

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The Early-Middle Pleistocene transition (around 1.2 to 0.5 Ma) marks a profound shift in Earth's climate state. Low-amplitude 41 ka climate cycles, dominating the earlier part of the Pleistocene, gave way progressively to a 100 ka rhythm of increased amplitude that characterizes our present glacial-interglacial world. This volume assesses the biotic and physical response to this transition both on land and in the oceans: indeed it examines the very nature of Quaternary climate change. Milankovitch theory, palaeoceanography using isotopes and microfossils, marine organic geochemistry, tephrochronology, the record of loess and soil deposition, terrestrial vegetational change, and the migration and evolution of hominins as well as other large and small mammals, are all considered. These themes combine to explore the very origins of our present biota.