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The module will cover the range of processes operating at geological time scales which have shaped global physical landscapes throughout the ''Quaternary'' sub-era (the last 2.6 million years, but with a focus on the last 25,000 years). Special attention is paid to understanding the development of Ireland’s Quaternary environments. The evidence around us of Quaternary environmental change provides important long-term record of some controls on global climatic development over longer than instrumental time scales, thus providing a context for the examination of modern concerns about accelerated global climate change.
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QUATERNARY ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
