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Author : Reginald Aldworth Daly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:476820240
Author : R. A. Daly,Hafner Publishing Company
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:760038988
Author : Doug Macdougall
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780520954946
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.
Author : Reginald Aldworth Daly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Geology, Stratigraphic
ISBN : OCLC:1068996552
Author : Reginald Aldworth Daly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Geology, Stratigraphic
ISBN : LCCN:lc63010748
Author : Peter L. Storck
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774841276
At the end of the Ice Age, small groups of hunter-gatherers crossed from Siberia to Alaska and began the last chapter in the human settlement of the earth. Many left little or no trace. But one group, the Early Paleo-Indians, exploded onto the archaeological record about 11,500 radiocarbon years ago and expanded rapidly throughout North America, sending splinter groups into Central and perhaps South America as well. Journey to the Ice Age explores the challenges faced by the Early Paleo-Indians of northeastern North America. A revealing, autobiographical account, this is at once a captivating record of Storck's discoveries and an introduction to the practice, challenges, and spirit of archaeology.
Author : John Gribbin,Mary Gribbin
Publisher : Allan Lane
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:39015055196409
"John and Mary Gribbin tell the remarkable story of how we came to understand the phenomenon of Ice Ages, focusing on the key personalities obsessed with the search for answers. How frequently do Ice Ages occur? How do astronomical rhythms affect the Earth's climate? Have there always been two polar ice caps? Is it true that tiny changes in the heat balance of the Earth could plunge us back into full Ice Age conditions? With startling new material on how the last major Ice Epoch could have hastened human evolution, Ice Age explains why the Earth was once covered in ice - and how that made us human."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Reginald Aldworth Daly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1935
Category : Geology, Stratigraphic
ISBN : OCLC:1039085090
Author : J.A. Chapman,S.A. all at The Open University Drury,R.C.L. Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2005-06-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781134640331
Documents and explains the natural climatic and ecological changes that have occurred during the past 2.6 million years. It also outlines the emergence and global impact of humans during this period.
Author : E.C. Pielou
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226668093
The fascinating story of how a harsh terrain that resembled modern Antarctica has been transformed gradually into the forests, grasslands, and wetlands we know today.
Author : Jason D. Nemeth
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781448862924
Earths ice ages have had a major impact on both the spread of human beings and the contours of the land our species has occupied. This informative book discusses what Earth was like during the last ice age and how that glacial period fits into the cycle of ice ages throughout the planets history. The book opens with a straight-forward explanation of the composition and movement of glaciers that will enhance reader comprehension.
Author : Nico Medina,Who HQ
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780399543906
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.
Author : Brian Fagan
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781541618572
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.
Author : Robert Percy Beckinsale,Richard J. Chorley
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0415056268
This volume provides a global treatment of historical and regional geomorphic work as it developed from the end of the nineteenth century to the hiatus of the Second World War. The book deals with the burgeoning of the eustatic theory, the concepts of isostasy and epeirogeny, and the first complete statements of the cycle of erosion and of polycyclic denudation chronology.
Author : John Imbrie,Katherine Palmer Imbrie
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : 0674440757
Scientists charged with producing a map of the earth during the last ice age ultimately confirmed the theory that the earth's irregular orbital motions account for the bizarre climatic changes which bring on ice ages. This book tells the story of those periods--what they were like, why they occurred, and when the next ice age is due.