Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science (4-Volume Set)

About this book

The Quaternary Sciences constitute a dynamic, multidisciplinary field of research that has been growing in scientific and societal importance in recent years. This branch of the Earth Sciences links ancient prehistory to modern environments.

Quaternary science plays an integral part in such important issues for modern society, groundwater resources and contamination, sea level change, geologic hazards (earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis), and soil erosion.

The Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science provides broad ranging, up-to-date articles on all of the major topics in the field, written by a team of leading experts, under the guidance of an editorial board. The text of the articles is written at a level that allows undergraduate students to understand the material, while providing active researchers with the latest information in the field.

Contents

Contents There will be at least 17 major sections with the following Section Editors: Quaternary Climate Change (Cary Mock, University of South Carolina, USA) Dating Quaternary Events (Tim Jull, University of Arizona, USA) Quaternary Stratigraphy (Brad Pillans, Australian National University, Australia) Glacial Landforms (David Evans, University of Durham, UK) Fluvial and Deltaic Environments (Tornbjorn Tornqvist, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA) History of Quaternary Glaciations (Phil Gibbard and Juergen Ehlers, University of Cambridge, UK and Geologisches Landesamt, Germany) Quaternary Sea Level (Ian Shennan, University of Durham, UK) Paleosols and Windblown Sediments (Dan Muhs, US Geological Survey, USA) Lake Level Studies (Mary Edwards, University of Cambridge, UK) Quaternary Paleobotany (Richard Bradshaw, Geological Survey of Denmark, Denmark) Paleolimnology (Marianne Douglas, University of Toronto, Canada) Quaternary Vertebrate Records (Danielle Schreve, University of London, UK) Insect Fossils (Scott Elias, University of London, UK) Paleoceanography (David Anderson, NOAA Paleoclimate Office, USA) Ice Core Records (Ed Brook, Oregon State University, USA) Non-marine stable isotopes (Henry Schwarcz, McMaster University, Canada) Humans in the Quaternary (Clive Gamble, University of London, UK)

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Biography

Scott Elias grew up in Colorado, in the Rocky Mountain region of the western United States. He attended the University of Colorado, and got BA degree in Environmental Biology. He continued his academic career at the same university, and received his PhD in Environmental Biology in 1980. His thesis topic concerned paleoecology of Holocene-age peat deposits in arctic Canada, focusing on insect fossil analyses. Following his PhD, Scott became a post-doctoral fellow under Prof. Alan Morgan in the Earth Science Department of the University of Waterloo, Ontario. He also spent six months as a visiting scientist at the Geobotanical Institute of the University of Berne, Switzerland, in 1981. Scott returned to the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR), University of Colorado, in 1982, and was a research associate and fellow of the institute during the next 20 years. His research continued to focus on paleoenvironmental reconstructions based on fossil insect assemblages. He has authored six books on paleoecology and natural history of Alaska, the Rocky Mountains, and the arid Southwest. In 2000, Scott accepted a lectureship in the Geography Department of Royal Holloway, University of London. He also has maintained an affiliation with INSTAAR. He is now a Reader in Physical Geography at Royal Holloway.