Time-Series Analysis and Cyclostratigraphy: Examining Stratigraphic Records of Environmental Cycles / Edition 1

by Graham P. Weedon

Overview

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 analyze 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, and wavelet and singular spectrum analysis. Practical problems of time-series analysis are considered in detail. Recent research into various types of tidal and climatic cycles is summarized.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521019835
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	09/15/2005
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	276
Product dimensions:	6.69(w) x 9.65(h) x 0.59(d)

About the Author

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'.

Table of Contents

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.

Editorial Reviews

"An important book for any library with significant investments in geological or other paleoclimactic literature. Highly recommended." Choice

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