Plant life of the Quaternary cold stages : evidence from the British Isles
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Plant life of the Quaternary cold stages : evidence from the British Isles
Cambridge University Press, 2011
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
"First published 2000. First paperback edition 2011"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This 2000 book brings together the published information on the Quaternary cold stage flora of over 80 sites in Britain and Ireland to present a factual cold stage flora from the fossil record. The data provides a basis for an interpretation of the flora, vegetation and environments of some of the most extraordinary periods in the earth's most recent history, now only seen in the imperfect mirror of today's Arctic. This important study aims to reveal the nature of an environment, relatively stable, but totally different to that of today. As such it will be significant not only to those interested in the Quaternary, but also to a wider audience of those studying the present flora, fauna and environment, including climate and climatic change.
Table of Contents
- 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.
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