Quaternary science

Quaternary science

Quaternary science is an inter-disciplinary field of study focusing on the Quaternary period, which encompasses the last 2.6 million years. The field studies the last ice age and the recent interstadial the Holocene and uses proxy evidence to reconstruct the past environments during this period to infer the climatic and environmental changes that have occurred.

ee also

* International Union for Quaternary Research
* Palynology
* 100,000-year problem
* Geochronology
* Journal of Quaternary Science

External links

* [http://qra.org.uk/ Quaternary Research Association]
* [http://www.inqua.tcd.ie/ International Union for Quaternary Research]
* [http://www.tcd.ie/Geography/IQUA/Index.htm Irish Quaternary Association]
* [http://www.quaternary.group.cam.ac.uk/ Cambridge Quaternary formally the Godwin Institute]


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