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.

Quaternary science journals

• Boreas
• Geografiska Annaler (Series A)
• Journal of Quaternary Science
• Quaternary Geochronology
• Quaternary International
• Quaternary Science Reviews

See also

• International Union for Quaternary Research
• Palynology
• 100,000-year problem
• Geochronology

External links

• Quaternary Research Association
• International Union for Quaternary Research
• Irish Quaternary Association
• Cambridge Quaternary formally the Godwin Institute

Subfields of physical geography Biogeography Climatology / Paleoclimatology Coastal geography Edaphology Geomorphology Glaciology Hydrology / Hydrography Landscape ecology Limnology Meteorology Oceanography Palaeogeography Pedology/Soil science Quaternary science