Time-Series Analysis and Cyclostratigraphy

Examining Stratigraphic Records of Environmental Cycles
Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-0-521-01983-5
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 273 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 482 g

Increasingly environmental scientists, palaeoceanographers and geologists are collecting quantitative records of environmental changes (time-series) from sediments, ice cores, cave calcite, corals and trees. This book explains how to analyse these records, using straightforward explanations and diagrams rather than formal mathematical derivations. All the main cyclostratigraphic methods are covered including spectral analysis, cross-spectral analysis, filtering, complex demodulation, wavelet and singular spectrum analysis. Practical problems of time-series analysis, including those of distortions of environmental signals during stratigraphic encoding, are considered in detail. Recent research into various types of tidal and climatic cycles is summarised. The book ends with an extensive reference section, and an appendix listing sources of computer algorithms. This book provides the ideal reference for all those using time-series analysis to study the nature and history of climatic and tidal cycles. It is suitable for senior undergraduate and graduate courses in environmental science, palaeoceanography and geology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weedon, Graham P.

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geologie Stratigraphie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Constructing time series in cyclostratigraphy; 3. Spectral estimation; 4. Additional methods of time-series analysis; 5. Practical considerations; 6. Environmental cycles recorded stratigraphically; Appendix. Published algorithms for time-series analysis; References.

Über Autor(innen)

Weedon, Graham P.
Graham Weedon is Senior Lecturer in Geology at the University of Luton. His current research involves studying records of annual cycles in cave calcite, ENSO cycles in varved sediment and Milankovitch cycles in ancient deep-sea sediments. He received a D.Phil from Oxford University in 1987, and has participated in Ocean Drilling Program cruises, off Oman (1987), Brazil (1994) and New Zealand (1998). In 1999 he co-convened a Royal Society Meeting entitled 'Astronomical Calibration of the Geological Time Scale'.