Landscape and Quaternary Environmental Change in New Zealand
This book brings together an overview of the recent geological history, active earth and biological processes and human settlement of New Zealand. Topics covered include the very active neotectonic and volcanic setting. Mountain geomorphic processes are e
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James Shulmeister Editor
Landscape and Quaternary Environmental Change in New Zealand
Atlantis Advances in Quaternary Science Volume 3
Series editor Colm O’Cofaigh, Department of Geography, Durham University, Durham, UK
The aim of the Atlantis book series ‘Advances in Quaternary Science’ is to bring together texts in the broad field of Quaternary Science that highlight recent research advances on aspects of glaciation and sea level change, the development and application of Quaternary geochronological methods, records of climate change from marine and terrestrial settings, geomorphology and landscape evolution and regionally-focused reviews of Quaternary environmental change. The series comprises monographs and edited volumes that require extensive illustration and substantial space, and which provide state of the art thematic and regional reviews on Quaternary related topics often focusing on processes and associated responses within the fields of geology, geomorphology, glaciology, geochronology and palaeo-biology. In the last two decades technological developments in dating methods, remote sensing and techniques for the analysis and interpretation of sedimentary and climatic archives have resulted in significant advances of climate and ocean change across a range of time-scales from annual to millennial. Publications in the Atlantis book series ‘Advances in Quaternary Science’ capture these developments and show how they have increased understanding of Pleistocene to Holocene climate, cryosphere and ocean change across a range of spatial and temporal scales.
More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/15358
James Shulmeister
Landscape and Quaternary Environmental Change in New Zealand
Editor James Shulmeister School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Management University of Queensland St Lucia Australia
Atlantis Advances in Quaternary Science ISBN 978-94-6239-236-6 ISBN 978-94-6239-237-3 DOI 10.2991/978-94-6239-237-3
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Preface
It is now a decade since Jaap van der Meer initially asked me to consider writing a book on the Quaternary of New Zealand. The offer was flattering but intimidating. It was intimidating because New Zealand is a sub-continental scale region that is exceptionally tectonically active and contains some of the finest Quaternary archives on the planet. Any single writer would be challenged to do it justice. Nevertheless the temptation to accept was high, primarily because there really has not been a book that focusses on the Quaternary history of the New Zealand and the need for such a volume was obvious. The closest existing offering is the book on the
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