Text Reading and Assignments

Lecture 1: What is the Quaternary,

http://qra.org.uk/outreach/quaternary

Lecture 2: See Links: Snowball Earth

Lectures 3-7: From the 4-volume :\”Encyclopaedia of Quaternary Science” (On reserve in the library)

1. V. 1: 28-37, “Introduction: History of recent major Projects”, Lowe, Walker, Porter
2. V.2: 1599-1609, “Palaeoceanography”, Anderson
3. V.3: 1740-1748, “Oxygen isotope Stratigraphy of Oceans”, Bassinot
4. V.2:  1145-1154, “ Ice Core methods/Overview”, Brook
5. V.2:  1212-1218, “Ice Core methods /Stable Isotopes”, Brook
6. V.2:  1181-1188,  “Ice Core methods/CO2 studies”, Stauffer
7. V.2:  1017-1022, Milankovitch Theory and Palaeoclimate, Berger and Loutre

Lectures 7-15 

8. V,1: 739-750, What is the thermohaline circulation?, Rahmstorf
9. V.4: 2911-2931, AMS Method, Jull
10. V.3: 2486-2497, Pollen Analysis, principles, Seppa
11. Grimm et al, Lake Tulane, Florida
12. V.3: 2356-2367, Rodent middens, Elias
13. V.4: 2668-2681, Pollen records, Western North America, Thompson