Author : John Imbrie
Publisher : Palgrave
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1349047015
Ice Ages
John Imbrie
An Ice Age Mystery
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Ice Ages
John Imbrie,Katherine Palmer Imbrie
Author : John Imbrie,Katherine Palmer Imbrie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Science
ISBN : UCSD:31822011194172
Ice Ages by John Imbrie,Katherine Palmer Imbrie Pdf
This book tells the exciting story of the ice ages--what they were like, why they occurred, and when the next one is due. The solution to the ice age mystery originated when the National Science Foundation organized the CLIMAP project to study changes in the earth's climate over the past 700,000 years. One of the goals was to produce a map of the earth during the last ice age. Scientists examined cores of sediment from the Indian Ocean bed and deciphered a continuous history for the past 500,000 years. Their work ultimately confirmed the theory that the earth's irregular orbital motions account for the bizarre climatic changes which bring on ice ages. This is a tale of scientific discovery and the colorful people who participated: Louis Agassiz, the young Swiss naturalist whose geological studies first convinced scientists that the earth has recently passed through an ice age; the Reverend William Buckland, an eccentric but respected Oxford professor who fought so hard against the ice-age theory before accepting it; James Croll, a Scots mechanic who educated himself as a scientist and first formulated the astronomic theory of ice ages; Milutin Milankovitch, the Serbian mathematician who gave the astronomic theory its firm quantitative foundation; and the many other astronomers, geochemists, geologists, paleontologists, and geophysicists who have been engaged for nearly a century and a half in the pressing search for a solution to the ice-age mystery.
Cave Detectives
David L. Harrison
Author : David L. Harrison
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-11
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781452135533
Cave Detectives by David L. Harrison Pdf
“Vivid descriptions of the animals, the cave, and the scientists are complemented by the original art and photos that work together unusually well.” —Booklist What was life like millions of years ago? The answer lies deep underground, in a place once home to a ferocious predator much larger than most animals walking around today. Through photographs and detailed illustrations, readers will learn how the secrets buried in a midwestern hillside helped scientists understand early life on Earth. This book’s simple but informative format allows readers to follow along as paleontologist Matt Forir and his team of experts unravel a prehistoric mystery. “[An] account of the discovery and early exploration of Missouri’s Riverbluff Cave, the oldest found so far in this country with fossil remains . . . may excite curiosity about the Riverbluff finds.” —Kirkus Reviews
An Ice Age Mystery
Rody L. Johnson
Author : Rody L. Johnson
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780813059716
An Ice Age Mystery by Rody L. Johnson Pdf
“This lively and fascinating book is an intelligent examination of how scientific endeavor operates over time and how community life can be focused and energized. It’s also filled with portraits of colorful personalities.”—Florida Weekly "A fascinating recounting of the early discovery of a Paleolithic human and the issues that were engendered by various opposing scientific views of the validity of the discovery and its analysis."--Dennis Stanford, coauthor of Across Atlantic Ice: The Origin of America's Clovis Culture "Since the site's discovery long ago, the complete story of the Old Vero Site has never been told. This is an informative and entertaining account of this remarkable site and its history in American archaeology."--Thomas D. Dillehay, author of The Settlement of the Americas: A New Prehistory "Johnson has thoroughly investigated, and transformed into a very readable narrative, an entire century of accumulated knowledge about the research, controversy, and curiosity surrounding the Old Vero archaeological site."--Barbara A. Purdy, author of Florida's People During the Last Ice Age "An engaging account of the first Paleoindian site discovered in eastern North America."--Robert S. Carr, author of Digging Miami "Johnson skillfully weaves a tale of prehistoric life in Florida with the 100-year search to understand that long lost world at the Vero Site."--Andy Hemmings, Florida Atlantic University In 1916, to the shock of the scientific community and the world at large, a Florida geologist discovered human remains mixed with the bones of prehistoric animals in a Vero Beach canal and proclaimed that humans had lived in North America since the Ice Age. These new findings by Elias Sellards flew in the face of prevailing wisdom, which held that humans first came to the continent only 6,000 years ago. His claim was snubbed by the top scientists of his day, he was laughed out of the state, Vero's fame declined, and the skull Sellards found--famously known as "Vero Man "--was lost. An Ice Age Mystery tells the story of Sellards's exciting find and the controversy it sparked. In the years that followed, other archaeological discoveries and the rise of radiocarbon dating established that humans did arrive in North America earlier than previously thought. The skull, however, was never recovered, and many people began to wonder: What exactly had Sellards found at Vero? And what else might be buried there? One hundred years after the first Vero discovery, construction plans threatened to cover up the legendary dig site, and a band of citizens and archaeologists protested. Excavations were reopened. Archaeologists uncovered 14,000-year-old burnt mammal bones and charcoal, signs of a human presence, and found further evidence to indicate a continuous human occupation of the site for several thousand years. Prior to the latest excavations an etching on a bone possibly 13,000 years old was discovered that could be the oldest piece of art in America. Sellards had been right all along. Many questions still remain. Who were these people? Where did they come from? And how did they get here? This book draws readers into the past, present, and future of one of the most historic discoveries in American archaeology.
Frozen Earth
Doug Macdougall
Author : Doug Macdougall
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780520954946
Frozen Earth by Doug Macdougall Pdf
In this engrossing and accessible book, Doug Macdougall explores the causes and effects of ice ages that have gripped our planet throughout its history, from the earliest known glaciation—nearly three billion years ago—to the present. Following the development of scientific ideas about these dramatic events, Macdougall traces the lives of many of the brilliant and intriguing characters who have contributed to the evolving understanding of how ice ages come about. As it explains how the great Pleistocene Ice Age has shaped the earth's landscape and influenced the course of human evolution, Frozen Earth also provides a fascinating look at how science is done, how the excitement of discovery drives scientists to explore and investigate, and how timing and chance play a part in the acceptance of new scientific ideas. Macdougall describes the awesome power of cataclysmic floods that marked the melting of the glaciers of the Pleistocene Ice Age. He probes the chilling evidence for "Snowball Earth," an episode far back in the earth's past that may have seen our planet encased in ice from pole to pole. He discusses the accumulating evidence from deep-sea sediment cores, as well as ice cores from Greenland and the Antarctic, that suggests fast-changing ice age climates may have directly impacted the evolution of our species and the course of human migration and civilization. Frozen Earth also chronicles how the concept of the ice age has gripped the imagination of scientists for almost two centuries. It offers an absorbing consideration of how current studies of Pleistocene climate may help us understand earth's future climate changes, including the question of when the next glacial interval will occur.
Frozen in Time
Michael Oard
Author : Michael Oard
Publisher : New Leaf Publishing Group
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2004-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781614582168
Frozen in Time by Michael Oard Pdf
Earth's past is littered with the mysterious and unexplained: the pyramids, Easter Island, Stonehenge, dinosaurs, and the list goes on and on as science looks for clues to decipher these puzzles. One such mystery surrounds the now-extinct creature called the woolly mammoth. Author and meteorologist Michael Oard has studied the mammoth and its equally mysterious time period, the Ice Age, for many years and has come to some fascinating conclusions to help lift the fog engulfing the facts. Some of the questions he addresses include: What would cause the summer temperatures of the northern United States and European to plummet more than 50 degrees Fahrenheit? Why did mammoths become extinct across the entire earth at the same time as many other large mammals? Why are the mammoth carcasses found generally in standing positions? How could large lakes exist in what are today very dry, desert-like places? What was the source of the abnormal of moisture necessary for heavy snow? What caused the cold summer temperatures and heavy snowfall to persist for hundreds of years? In logical progression many other Ice Age topics are explained including super Ice Age floods, ice cores, man in the Ice Age, and the number of ice ages. This is one of the most difficult eras in geological history for a uniformitarian scientist (one who believes the earth evolved by slow processes over millions of years) to explain, simply because long ages of evolution cannot explain it. Provided here are plausible explanations of the seemingly unsolvable mysterious about the Ice Age and the woolly mammoths - Frozen in Time.
Cave Detectives
David L. Harrison
Author : David L. Harrison
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-11
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781452138824
Cave Detectives by David L. Harrison Pdf
What was life like millions of years ago? The answer lies deep underground, in a place once home to a ferocious predator much larger than most animals walking around today. Through photographs and detailed illustrations, readers will learn how the secrets buried in a midwestern hillside helped scientists understand early life on Earth. This book's simple but informative format allows readers to follow along as paleontologist Matt Forir and his team of experts unravel a prehistoric mystery.
The Little Ice Age
Brian Fagan
Author : Brian Fagan
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781541618572
The Little Ice Age by Brian Fagan Pdf
Only in the last decade have climatologists developed an accurate picture of yearly climate conditions in historical times. This development confirmed a long-standing suspicion: that the world endured a 500-year cold snap -- The Little Ice Age -- that lasted roughly from A.D. 1300 until 1850. The Little Ice Age tells the story of the turbulent, unpredictable and often very cold years of modern European history, how climate altered historical events, and what they mean in the context of today's global warming. With its basis in cutting-edge science, The Little Ice Age offers a new perspective on familiar events. Renowned archaeologist Brian Fagan shows how the increasing cold affected Norse exploration; how changing sea temperatures caused English and Basque fishermen to follow vast shoals of cod all the way to the New World; how a generations-long subsistence crisis in France contributed to social disintegration and ultimately revolution; and how English efforts to improve farm productivity in the face of a deteriorating climate helped pave the way for the Industrial Revolution and hence for global warming. This is a fascinating, original book for anyone interested in history, climate, or the new subject of how they interact.
Ice Age 2: Join the Pack!
Ellie O'Ryan
Author : Ellie O'Ryan
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2006-02-21
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780060839703
Ice Age 2: Join the Pack! by Ellie O'Ryan Pdf
Manny joins a herd of fellow mammoths, who struggle to escape a flood caused by the melting ice.
Adventures in the Ice Age
Linda Bailey
Author : Linda Bailey
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1553375033
Adventures in the Ice Age by Linda Bailey Pdf
Join the Binkertons as they return to the Good Times Travel Agency only to find themselves deep-frozen in the Ice Age.
What Was the Ice Age?
Nico Medina,Who HQ
Author : Nico Medina,Who HQ
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780399543906
What Was the Ice Age? by Nico Medina,Who HQ Pdf
A mesmerizing overview of the world as it was when glaciers covered the earth and long-extinct creatures like the woolly mammoths and saber-toothed cats battled to survive. Go back 20,000 years ago to a time of much colder global temperatures when glaciers and extensive sheets of ice covered much of our planet. As these sheets traveled, they caused enormous changes in the Earth's landscape and climate, leading to the evolution of creatures such as giant armadillos, saber-toothed cats, and woolly mammoths as well as club-wielding Neanderthals and later the cleverer modern humans. Nico Medina re-creates this harsh ancient world in a vivid and easy-to-read narrative.
Journey Through the Ice Age
Paul G. Bahn,Paul G.. Bahn,Jean Vertut
Author : Paul G. Bahn,Paul G.. Bahn,Jean Vertut
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520213068
Journey Through the Ice Age by Paul G. Bahn,Paul G.. Bahn,Jean Vertut Pdf
Some of the oldest art in the world is the subject of this riveting and beautiful book. Paul Bahn and Jean Vertut explore carved objects and wall art discoveries from the Ice Age, covering the period from 300,000 B.P. to 10,000 B.P., and their collaboration marks a signal event for archaeologists and lay readers alike. Utilizing the most modern analytical techniques in archaeology, Bahn presents new accounts of Russian caves only recently opened to foreign specialists; the latest discoveries from China and Brazil; European cave finds at Cosquer, Chauvet, and Covaciella; and the recently discovered sites in Australia. He also studies sites in Africa, India, and the Far East. Included are the only photographic images of many caves that are now closed to protect their fragile environments. A separate chapter in the book examines art fakes and forgeries and relates how such deceptions have been exposed. The beliefs and preoccupations of Paleolithic peoples resonate throughout this book: the importance of the hunt and the magic and shamanism surrounding it, the recording of the seasons, the rituals of sex and fertility, the cosmology and associated myths. Yet enigmas and mysteries emerge as well, particularly as new analytical techniques raise new questions and cast doubt on our earlier suppositions. A comprehensive, up-to-date analysis of all that has been discovered about Ice Age art, Bahn and Vertut's book offers a visually rich link with the past.
The Genesis Flood
John C. Whitcomb (Jr.),Henry Madison Morris
Author : John C. Whitcomb (Jr.),Henry Madison Morris
Publisher : P & R Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Religion
ISBN : 159638395X
The Genesis Flood by John C. Whitcomb (Jr.),Henry Madison Morris Pdf
Over fifty years ago Henry Morris and John Whitcomb joined together to write a controversial book that sparked dialogue and debate on Darwin and Jesus, science and the Bible, evolution and creation -- culminating in what would later be called the birth of the modern creation science movement. Now, fifty years, forty-nine printings, and 300,000 copies after the initial publication of The Genesis Flood, P & R Publishing has produced a fiftieth anniversary edition of this modern classic. - Back cover.
Terra Tempo
David Shapiro
Author : David Shapiro
Publisher : Craigmore Creations
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Animals, Fossil
ISBN : 0984442219
Terra Tempo by David Shapiro Pdf
Jenna, Caleb, and Ari discover a time map and journey back 15,000 years to witness the great Missoula Floods of the Ice Ages.
The Origin and Decline of the Ice Ages
Alan E. Dover
Author : Alan E. Dover
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-03
Category : Climatic changes
ISBN : 1543073239
The Origin and Decline of the Ice Ages by Alan E. Dover Pdf
"This work includes a pictorial explanation of the ice ages and ice age flooding, a corollary of the book 'The dynamics of spiral planetary motion', which has revealed the elusive cause of the mysterious 'Ice Ages'."-- Back cover.
