
Iceland - Modern Processes and Past Environments
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Iceland provides an unique stage on which to study the natural environment, both past and present, and it is understanding both aspects of reconstructing the past and observing and interpreting the present that form the focus of the contributions to this volume. The papers are all written by active researchers and incorporate both reviews and new data. Although concentrating largely on the recent Quaternary timescale a wide range of topics is explored including subglacial volcanism, onshore and offshore evidence for the Last Glacial Maximum and subsequent deglaciation, current glacial characteristics including jökulhlaups and glacial landsystems, soil development, Holocene ecosystem change, current oceanography, impacts of volcanic sulphur loading, chemical weathering and the CO2 budget and documentary evidence for historical climate. The key element of the volume is that for the first time it provides a wide overview of a range of topics for which Iceland provides an almost unparalleled laboratory emphasizing the importance of research on this small island for studies over a much broader global scale. These reviews point the way to future research directions and are supplemented by extensive illustrations and a comprehensive bibliography.
Key Features
* Wide range of related topics covered both from a present day and quaternary perspective
* Reviews from scientists active in each research area across a range of subjects providing both overviews and new data supplemented by an extensive bibliography
* Extensive illustrations and examples from the field
* Reviews from scientists active in each research area across a range of subjects providing both overviews and new data supplemented by an extensive bibliography
* Extensive illustrations and examples from the field
Readership
Senior undergraduate/postgraduate/research level across a range disciplines - geology, physical geography, geosciences, palaeoecology, meteorology, pedology, hydrology, oceanography and archaeology
Table of Contents
- Preface.
1. Iceland. modern processes, past environments: an (C. Caseldine et al.)./inca/publications/misc/705143contentslist.pdf introduction
2. Late Quaternary marine sediment studies of the Icelandic shelf-palaeoceanography, land/ice sheet/ocean interactions and deglaciation: a review (J.T. Andrews).
3. Relative sea level change in Iceland: new aspects of the Weichselian deglaciation of Iceland (H. Norddahl and H. Pétursson).
4. Recent developments in oceanographic research in Icelandic waters (S. Jónsson, H. Valdimarsson).
5. The glacier-marginal landsystems of Iceland (D.J.A. Evans).
6. Subglacial volcanic activity in Iceland (M.T. Gudmundsson).
7. Icelandic jökulhlaup impacts (A.J. Russell et al.).
8. Environmental and climatic effects from atmospheric SO2 mass-loading
by Icelandic flood lava eruptions (P. Pórdarson).
9. Holocene glacier history (M. Wastl, J. Stötter).
10. Variations of termini of glaciers in Iceland in recent centuries and their
connection with climate (O. Sigurdsson).
11. Local knowledge and travellers' tales: a selection of climatic observations
in Iceland (A. Ogilvie).
12. Chemical weathering, chemical denudation and the CO2 budget for
Iceland (S.R. Gíslason).
13. Icelandic soils (O. Arnalds).
14. The Holocene vegetation history of Iceland, state-of-the-art and future
research (M. Hallsdóttir, C. Caseldine).
Product details
- No. of pages: 420
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Elsevier Science 2005
- Published: April 28, 2005
- Imprint: Elsevier Science
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780444506528
- eBook ISBN: 9780080534398
About the Editors
C. Caseldine
Affiliations and Expertise
Department of Geography, University of Exeter, UK
A. Russell
Affiliations and Expertise
School of Earth Sciences and Geography, Politics and Sociology, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK
J. Hardardóttir
Affiliations and Expertise
Orkustofnun Hydrological Services, Reykjavik, Iceland
O. Knudsen
Affiliations and Expertise
Jardfraedistofan ehf., Reykjavik, Iceland
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