Quaternary research in Britain and Ireland : a history based on the activities of the subdepartment of quaternary research, University of Cambridge, 1948-1994 / Richard West.
During the later part of the last century there was rapid development of the study and understanding of the changing environments of the last 2 million years. This came to provide a firm background for today's knowledge of the significance and importance of climatic change. Interdisciplinary re...
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. Antecedents ; Preface
- The contribution of Clement Reid (1853-1916) to the foundation of Quaternary research
- From the early 1900s to 1929
- The early 1930s
- Research Committees of the early 1930s
- Progress in Cambridge
- Developments in research to the 1950s
- Establishment of the Sub-department of Quaternary Research
- Part II. The Subdepartment of Quaternary Research ; Introduction
- Organisation and people
- Teaching, reference collections, databases, research
- Research : vegetational history, including palaeoecology and palaeolimnology
- Research : vegetational history of pre-Flandrian temperate stages and cold stages
- Research : geology
- Research : faunas and archaeology
- Research : radiocarbon dating
- Research : mass spectrometry, palaeotemperatures and deep sea sediments
- Research : TL and ESR dating, palaeomagnetism, dendrochronology and dendroclimatology
- Dissolution, achievements, reflections
- Part III. A wider view ; Introduction
- Aspects of the geology
- Aspects of the biology
- The Quaternary community
- Appendix A. Graduate students, Sub-department of Quaternary Research
- Appendix B. List of researchers.