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The Quaternary system/period is the most recent geological time interval in the history of the Earth, and covers the last 2.588 million years up to the present day. It includes a series of very extensive environmental changes which have affected and shaped landscapes and life on Earth. These variations in turn have driven rapid changes in both continental and marine biota. With this in mind, the aim of this book is to provide tools for reconstructing Quaternary environments, based on specific cases which offer an approach to the use of mollusk shells as a multi-proxy data source.
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Gordillo, S., Bayer, M.S., Boretto, G., Charó, M. (2014). Introduction. In: Mollusk shells as bio-geo-archives. SpringerBriefs in Earth System Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03476-8_1
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