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Environmental Change in Iceland: Past and Present

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  • © 1991

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Editors:
  1. Judith K. Maizels

    1. Department of Geography, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK

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  2. Chris Caseldine

    1. Department of Geography, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK

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Part of the book series: Glaciology and Quaternary Geology (GQGE, volume 7)

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Environmental Change in Iceland: Past and Present. An Introduction

    1. Environmental Change in Iceland: Past and Present. An introduction

      • Judith Maizels, Chris Caseldine
      Pages 1-9

  4. Environmental Changes during the Postglacial

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-105
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    2. Biotic Changes, Climatic Change and Human Settlement

      1. ‘If this is a Refugium, Why are my Feet so Bloody Cold?’ The Origins of the Icelandic Biota in the Light of Recent Research
        • Paul Buckland, Andrew Dugmore
        Pages 107-125
      2. Faunal Change or Taphonomic Problem ? A Comparison of Modern and Fossil Insect Faunas from South East Iceland
        • Paul Buckland, Andrew Dugmore, Jon Sadler
        Pages 127-146
      3. Tephrochronology and Late Holocene Soil Erosion in South Iceland
        • Andrew Dugmore, Paul Buckland
        Pages 147-159
      4. A Study of Farm Abandonment in Two Regions of Iceland
        • Guðrún Sveinbjarnardóttir
        Pages 161-177

  5. Recent Landscape Change

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 235-235
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    2. An Assessment of Some of the Factors Involved in Recent Landscape Change in Iceland

      • John Gerrard
      Pages 237-253
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3 new biota and extinction of others, and extensive soil erosion reaching almost catastrophic proportions have led to desertification of many upland areas and abandonment by local populations. The role of climatic change as opposed to deforestation and sheep grazing in creating these new environments has proved a further issue of great controversy. While our understanding of historic environmental changes remains inadequate, our knowledge of processes that are modifying the present-day landscape is also sparse and selective. Little is known of active periglacial processes, slope instabilities, and rates of soil erosion by slope wash and aeolian transport. Coastal processes of erosion and beach formation have been studied only locally. Most of our information on recent or active processes comprises records of glacier fluctuations, volcanic eruptions and jOkulhlaup events, but sti11little is known of the mechanisms and processes of landscape change effected by these events. This volume of papers, based on a conference sponsored by the Quaternary Research Association and the Geologists Association and held at the University of Aberdeen in April 1989, addresses many of these crucial uncertainties regarding environmental changes in Iceland from the Lateglacial onwards. The papers make a major contribution to dispelling many earlier uncertainties and clarifying areas of controversy. Many of the papers challenge traditional and poorly supported ideas, replacing them with hypotheses based on new data and new insights derived from the expansion of wider scientific expertise and theory. The volume focuses on three major areas of research in particular.

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It is highly recommended to anyone interested in the study of northern climate, environment, and Quaternary history.
Bulletin American Meteorological Society

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Geography, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK

    Judith K. Maizels

  • Department of Geography, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK

    Chris Caseldine

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Environmental Change in Iceland: Past and Present

  • Editors: Judith K. Maizels, Chris Caseldine

  • Series Title: Glaciology and Quaternary Geology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3150-6

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1991

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-5389-1Published: 05 November 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-3150-6Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0924-5006

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 333

  • Topics: Hydrogeology, Ecotoxicology

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