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PALAEOENVIRONMENTAL RECONSTRUCTION
The deduction of the characteristics of past environments from proxy evidence such as fossils, sedimentology, geomorphology and geochemistry. It is the key step in identifying environmental change in the geological record. natural archives such as marine sediment cores and marine palaeoclimatic proxies are used in palaeoceanography and in reconstructing ocean palaeocirculation. proxy climatic indicators, such as microfossil assemblages, stable isotopes and charcoal, from lakes, ...
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