quaternary climate change

• Terrestrial record if quaternary climate change is incomplete. 

  • High energy - erosion
  • Scavenging 
  • Sea level rise 
  • Presence of ice sheets 

   
• Terrestrial record:

  • Pollen 
  • Dendrochronology 
  • Fossils 
  • Varves 
  • Terrestrial ice cores
  • Glacial deposits - tillites 
• Ocean record is nearly complete:

  • Continuous sediment deposition in oceans 
  • Oxygen isotopes recorded in benthonic and planktonic foraminifera