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The environmental system is complex and dynamic. It involves many different processes, with characteristic time scales ranging from seconds to billions of years, which often interact in a non-linear manner. There is abundant evidence that the present-day environment is markedly different from those prevailing 500, 5,000, and 50,000 years ago, for example. It is clearly pointless to study the present-day environment in isolation; we need to understand the longer-term processes that influenced our world in the past, and will do so in the near future.
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Beer, J., McCracken, K., von Steiger, R. (2012). Archives. In: Cosmogenic Radionuclides. Physics of Earth and Space Environments. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14651-0_14
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