本书是同名英文专著的中文版。新增的第十二章是根据中文版发行对象的需要而编写的介绍中国第四纪环境的章节。从环境演变的角度来看待第四纪时期发生的各种地质事件,探讨这些事件产生原因是本书的特色。书中系统介绍了在内外营力作用下,生物界(动植物群落)以及冰川、沙漠、海洋、河流和湖泊等地质体中各种环境变化的记录;探讨了人类活动对环境的影响;以古大气环流为纽带,把导致环境变化的各种驱动因子,每种地质体对各种驱动
Martin Williams
Professor Martin Williams is a world authority on climatic and environmental change at a variety of scales in space and time. He has carried out extensive fieldwork in Australia, Africa, India and China, and is author of over 200 research papers on Quaternary geology, geomorphology, climatic change and prehistoric environments in Africa, Australia and Asia (incl...