Paleoclimates

Author : Thomas M. Cronin
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009-11-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780231516365

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The field of paleoclimatology relies on physical, chemical, and biological proxies of past climate changes that have been preserved in natural archives such as glacial ice, tree rings, sediments, corals, and speleothems. Paleoclimate archives obtained through field investigations, ocean sediment coring expeditions, ice sheet coring programs, and other projects allow scientists to reconstruct climate change over much of earth's history. When combined with computer model simulations, paleoclimatic reconstructions are used to test hypotheses about the causes of climatic change, such as greenhouse gases, solar variability, earth's orbital variations, and hydrological, oceanic, and tectonic processes. This book is a comprehensive, state-of-the art synthesis of paleoclimate research covering all geological timescales, emphasizing topics that shed light on modern trends in the earth's climate. Thomas M. Cronin discusses recent discoveries about past periods of global warmth, changes in atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations, abrupt climate and sea-level change, natural temperature variability, and other topics directly relevant to controversies over the causes and impacts of climate change. This text is geared toward advanced undergraduate and graduate students and researchers in geology, geography, biology, glaciology, oceanography, atmospheric sciences, and climate modeling, fields that contribute to paleoclimatology. This volume can also serve as a reference for those requiring a general background on natural climate variability.

Author : Thomas M. Cronin
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Paleoclimatology
ISBN : 9780231144940

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"When combined with computer model simulations, paleoclimatic reconstructions are used to test hypotheses about the causes of climatic change, such as greenhouse gases, solar variability, earth's orbital variations, and hydrological, oceanic, and tectonic processes, This book is a comprehensive, state-of-the art synthesis of paleoclimate research covering all geological timescales, emphasizing topics that shed light on modern trends in the earth's climate." --Book Jacket.

Author : Michael L. Bender
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780691145556

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Paleoclimate by Michael L. Bender Pdf

Earth's climate has undergone dramatic changes over the geologic timescale. At one extreme, Earth has been glaciated from the poles to the equator for periods that may have lasted millions of years. At another, temperatures were once so warm that the Canadian Arctic was heavily forested and large dinosaurs lived on Antarctica. Paleoclimatology is the study of such changes and their causes. Studying Earth's long-term climate history gives scientists vital clues about anthropogenic global warming and how climate is affected by human endeavor. In this book, Michael Bender, an internationally recognized authority on paleoclimate, provides a concise, comprehensive, and sophisticated introduction to the subject. After briefly describing the major periods in Earth history to provide geologic context, he discusses controls on climate and how the record of past climate is determined. The heart of the book then proceeds chronologically, introducing the history of climate changes over millions of years--its patterns and major transitions, and why average global temperature has varied so much. The book ends with a discussion of the Holocene (the past 10,000 years) and by putting manmade climate change in the context of paleoclimate. The most up-to-date overview on the subject, Paleoclimate provides an ideal introduction to undergraduates, nonspecialist scientists, and general readers with a scientific background.

Author : Curtis J. Sorenson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Northwest Territories
ISBN : WISC:89010808723

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Interrelationships Between Soils and Climate and Between Paleosols and Paleoclimates by Curtis J. Sorenson Pdf

Author : Martha Andrews
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Geology, Stratigraphic
ISBN : UOM:39015010046897

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Holocene Paleoclimates: Indexes by Martha Andrews Pdf

Volume 1 contains 1300 annotated references to literature on Holocene palaeoclimates with emphasis on high latitude and high altitude areas. Arranged alphabetically by author and grouped into 15 subject categories. Volume 2 contains the following indexes: author, subject, keyword, time period within Holocene epoch, geographic area, title, and dating methods.

Author : John A. Robbins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Climatic changes
ISBN : UCSD:31822037083854

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Stable Isotopes, Marine Paleoclimates, and Human Subsistence on California's Channel Islands by John A. Robbins Pdf

Author : Elisabeth S. Vrba,George H. Denton,Timothy C. Partridge,Lloyd H. Burckle
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 567 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780300063486

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Paleoclimate and Evolution, with Emphasis on Human Origins by Elisabeth S. Vrba,George H. Denton,Timothy C. Partridge,Lloyd H. Burckle Pdf

Addressing the relationship between climatic and biotic evolution, this work focuses on how climatic change during the last 15 million years - especially the last three million - has affected human evolution and other evolutionary events.

Author : Gilles Ramstein,Amaëlle Landais,Nathaelle Bouttes,Pierre Sepulchre,Aline Govin
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030249823

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Paleoclimatology by Gilles Ramstein,Amaëlle Landais,Nathaelle Bouttes,Pierre Sepulchre,Aline Govin Pdf

This two-volume book provides a comprehensive, detailed understanding of paleoclimatology beginning by describing the “proxy data” from which quantitative climate parameters are reconstructed and finally by developing a comprehensive Earth system model able to simulate past climates of the Earth. It compiles contributions from specialists in each field who each have an in-depth knowledge of their particular area of expertise. The first volume is devoted to “Finding, dating and interpreting the evidence”. It describes the different geo-chronological technical methods used in paleoclimatology. Different fields of geosciences such as: stratigraphy, magnetism, dendrochronology, sedimentology, are drawn from and proxy reconstructions from ice sheets, terrestrial (speleothems, lakes, and vegetation) and oceanic data, are used to reconstruct the ancient climates of the Earth. The second volume, entitled “Investigation into ancient climates,” focuses on building comprehensive models of past climate evolution. The chapters are based on understanding the processes driving the evolution of each component of the Earth system (atmosphere, ocean, ice). This volume provides both an analytical understanding of each component using a hierarchy of models (from conceptual to very sophisticated 3D general circulation models) and a synthetic approach incorporating all of these components to explore the evolution of the Earth as a global system. As a whole this book provides the reader with a complete view of data reconstruction and modeling of the climate of the Earth from deep time to present day with even an excursion to include impacts on future climate.

Author : Thomas M. Cronin
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1999-07-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 0231503040

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Principles of Paleoclimatology by Thomas M. Cronin Pdf

Greenhouse gases, global warming, thinning ozone layers—understanding the Earth's climatic changes is one of today's most pressing international concerns. How fast has the climate changed? Where and why is it changing? What is the impact of climate change on our ecosystems, coastal regions, glaciers, forests, and lakes, and even on the evolution of our own species? This introduction to the rapidly emerging field of paleoclimatology explains the patterns and processes in the history of the Earth's climate to answer such essential questions. Using the geologic records of ocean and lake sediment, ice cores, corals, and other natural archives, Principles of Paleoclimatology describes the history of the Earth's climate—the ice age cycles, sea level changes, volcanic activity, changes in atmosphere and solar radiation—and the resulting, sometimes catastrophic, biotic responses. These paleoclimate records provide a baseline against which we can compare modern climate trends. Designed to give a fundamental background—including both history and methodology—to the discipline of paleoclimatology, this book is the first to advance our understanding of how climate change develops, how those changes are detected, and how the climate of the past can shape the climate of the future.

Author : Raymond S. Bradley
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 613 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1999-02-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 0080538347

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Paleoclimatology by Raymond S. Bradley Pdf

Raymond S. Bradley provides his readers with a comprehensive and up-to-date review of all of the important methods used in paleoclimatic reconstruction, dating and paleoclimate modeling. Two comprehensive chapters on dating methods provide the foundation for all paleoclimatic studies and are followed by up-to-date coverage of ice core research, continental geological and biological records, pollen analysis, radiocarbon dating, tree rings and historical records. New methods using alkenones in marine sediments and coral studies are also described. Paleoclimatology, Second Edition, is an essential textbook for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students studying climatology, paleoclimatology and paleooceanography worldwide, as well as a valuable reference for lecturers and researchers, appealing to archaeologists and scientists interested in environmental change. * Contains two up-to-date chapters on dating methods * Consists of the latest coverage of ice core research, marine sediment and coral studies, continental geological and biological records, pollen analysis, tree rings, and historical records * Describes the newest methods using alkenones in marine sediments and long continental pollen records * Addresses all important methods used in paleoclimatic reconstruction * Includes an extensive chapter on the use of models in paleoclimatology * Extensive and up-to-date bibliography * Illustrated with numerous comprehensive figure captions

Author : Vivien Gornitz
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 1062 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781402045516

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Encyclopedia of Paleoclimatology and Ancient Environments by Vivien Gornitz Pdf

One of Springer’s Major Reference Works, this book gives the reader a truly global perspective. It is the first major reference work in its field. Paleoclimate topics covered in the encyclopedia give the reader the capability to place the observations of recent global warming in the context of longer-term natural climate fluctuations. Significant elements of the encyclopedia include recent developments in paleoclimate modeling, paleo-ocean circulation, as well as the influence of geological processes and biological feedbacks on global climate change. The encyclopedia gives the reader an entry point into the literature on these and many other groundbreaking topics.

Author : Clarence A. Hall
Publisher : Geological Society of America
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Science
ISBN : 0813723574

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Nearshore Marine Paleoclimatic Regions, Increasing Zoogeographic Provinciality, Molluscan Extinctions, and Paleoshorelines, California by Clarence A. Hall Pdf

Approximately 3000 middle and late Cenozoic nearshore marine molluscan taxa from western California are assigned to six time periods, spanning ~25 m.y. In this interdisciplinary study, western California is palinspastically restored for each of the time periods by backsliding and back-rotating large fault blocks or crustal units. Marine fossil assemblages are assigned to nearshore paleoclimatic regions or water masses within palinspastically restored California. In addition, this volume reveals positive feedback mechanisms between paleolatitudinal changes in sea-surface paleotemperature gradients and changes in the diversity of marine mollusks along the California coast through time; defines "equable" based effective temperatures; and analyzes extinction rates among macroinvertebrate marine taxa from coastal California and the possible causes of these extinctions. The late Paleogene to Neogene faunas reflect an increase in faunal diversity related to strengthened temperature gradients, greater extremes in sea-surface temperatures, reduction in temperateness, and the development of an embayed California coastline.

Author : George O. Klein
Publisher : Geological Society of America
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780813722887

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Pangea: Paleoclimate, Tectonics, and Sedimentation During Accretion, Zenith, and Breakup of a Supercontinent by George O. Klein Pdf

Summarizes invited and contributed papers from the May 1992 Project pangea workshop in Lawrence, Kansas. Topics include the climatic evolution of India and Australia, pangean orogenic and epeirogenic uplifts, permian climatic cooling in the Canadian Arctic, and pangean shelf carbonates. Annotation c

Author : Keith D. Alverson,Raymond S. Bradley,Thomas F. Pedersen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642558283

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Paleoclimate, Global Change and the Future by Keith D. Alverson,Raymond S. Bradley,Thomas F. Pedersen Pdf

This book provides a synthesis of the past decade of research into global changes that occurred in the earth system in the past. Focus is achieved by concentrating on those changes in the Earth's past environment that best inform our evaluation of current and future global changes and their consequences for human populations. The book stands as a ten year milestone in the operation of the Past Global Changes (PAGES) Project of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP). It seeks to provide a quantitative understanding of the Earth’s environment in the geologically recent past and to define the envelope of natural environmental variability against which anthropogenic impacts on the Earth System may be assessed. A set of color overhead transparencies based on the figures in the book is available free on the PAGES website (www.pages-igbp.org) for use in teaching and lecturing.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Geology, Stratigraphic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105008741121

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Paleoclimate Controls on Carboniferous Sedimentation and Cyclic Stratigraphy in the Appalachian Basin by Anonim Pdf