What Was The Ice Age

Author : Nico Medina,Who HQ
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780399543906

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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.

Author : E. C. Pielou
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226668093

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After the Ice Age by E. C. Pielou Pdf

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. "One of the best scientific books published in the last ten years."—Ottowa Journal "A valuable new synthesis of facts and ideas about climate, geography, and life during the past 20,000 years. More important, the book conveys an intimate appreciation of the rich variety of nature through time."—S. David Webb,Science

Author : Brian Fagan
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781541618572

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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.

Author : John Gribbin,Mary Gribbin
Publisher : Allan Lane
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:39015055196409

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Ice Age by John Gribbin,Mary Gribbin Pdf

"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 : Doug Macdougall
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780520954946

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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.

Author : Milutin Milanković
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Glacial epoch
ISBN : UOM:39015015987780

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Canon of Insolation and the Ice-age Problem by Milutin Milanković Pdf

Author : Peter L. Storck
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774841276

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Journey to the Ice Age by Peter L. Storck Pdf

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 : Jean M. Grove
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 869 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781134857463

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The Little Ice Age by Jean M. Grove Pdf

The evidence for the Little Ice Age, the most important fluctuation in global climate in historical times, is most dramatically represented by the advance of mountain glaciers in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and their retreat since about 1850. The effects on the landscape and the daily life of people have been particularly apparent in Norway and the Alps. This major book places an extensive body of material relating to Europe, in the form of documentary evidence of the history of the glaciers, their portrayal in paintings and maps, and measurements made by scientists and others, within a global perspective. It shows that the glacial history of mountain regions all over the world displays a similar pattern of climatic events. Furthermore, fluctuations on a comparable scale have occurred at intervals of a millennium or two throughout the last ten thousand years since the ice caps of North America and northwest Europe melted away. This is the first scholarly work devoted to the Little Ice Age, by an author whose research experience of the subject has been extensive. This book includes large numbers of maps, diagrams and photographs, many not published elsewhere, and very full bibliographies. It is a definitive work on the subject, and an excellent focus for the work of economic and social historians as well as glaciologists, climatologists, geographers, and specialists in mountain environment.

Author : R. C. L. Wilson,Stephen A. Drury,Jenny Louise Chapman
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Climatic changes
ISBN : 0415198410

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The Great Ice Age by R. C. L. Wilson,Stephen A. Drury,Jenny Louise Chapman Pdf

The Great Ice Age documents and explains the natural climatic and palaeoecologic changes that have occurred during the past 2.6 million years, outlining the emergence and global impact of our species during this period. Exploring a wide range of records of climate change, the authors demonstrate the interconnectivity of the components of the Earths climate system, show how the evidence for such change is obtained, and explain some of the problems in collecting and dating proxy climate data. One of the most dramatic aspects of humanity's rise is that it coincided with the beginnings of major environmental changes and a mass extinction that has the pace, and maybe magnitude, of those in the far-off past that stemmed from climate, geological and occasionally extraterrestrial events. This book reveals that anthropogenic effects on the world are not merely modern matters but date back perhaps a million years or more.

Author : John Imbrie
Publisher : Palgrave
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1349047015

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Ice Ages by John Imbrie Pdf

Author : Jamie Woodward
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199580699

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The Ice Age by Jamie Woodward Pdf

"In an era of warming climate, the study of the ice age past is now more important than ever. This book examines the wonders of the Quaternary ice age - to show how ice age landscapes and ecosystems were repeatedly and rapidly transformed as plants, animals, and humans reorganized their worlds." --Publisher.

Author : Kirsten Reed
Publisher : Text Publishing
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781921520747

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The Ice Age by Kirsten Reed Pdf

We stopped at a roadside diner. People asked if I was his daughter. They ask all the time. Hoping, accusing. We never say yes, and we never say no. We ate our food at a booth in a hungry, self-conscious rush, straight out of the wrappers. They didn't have plates. We left a tip, just change. The waitress scooped it up straight away as we slid out of the booth. She was middle-aged and bulgy, in a proper matronly waitress's dress. She shot us what I suppose was intended to be a look of gratitude. She really only managed a weak glare. I guess that's the countryside for you. People are a little edgy.' Across the heartless expanse of middle America, a teenaged girl is riding shotgun with an older man. She watches him; she sees her fascination tallied in the black looks of waitresses, the knowing smiles of motel clerks. The man can see no proper way of conducting this relationship but is bound to her by concern and tenderness; perhaps desire. The girl craves only closeness. She knows the Ice Age is coming, and we will need to huddle together for warmth. Kirsten Reed's debut novel, with its echoes of Nabokov, Kerouac and Bret Easton Ellis, captures the translucent moment at the end of childhood in all its awkwardness, sincerity and heedless vulnerability. In prose both lyrical and earthy, comic and darkly harrowing, this extraordinary young writer creates a journey of irresistible momentum and tragic possibility. It will leave you with the sense that you have met someone significant; and you will not soon forget her.

Author : Alastair G. Dawson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781135853563

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Ice Age Earth by Alastair G. Dawson Pdf

Ice Age Earth provides the first detailed review of global environmental change in the Late Quaternary. Significant geological and climatic events are analysed within a review of glacial and periglacial history. The melting history of the last ice sheets reveals that complex, dynamic and catastrophic change occurred, change which affected the circulation of the atmosphere and oceans and the stability of the Earth's crust.

Author : Paul G. Bahn
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Art, Prehistoric
ISBN : 0199686009

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Images of the Ice Age by Paul G. Bahn Pdf

Secondary edition statement taken from dust jacket flap.

Author : John Imbrie,Katherine Palmer Imbrie
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : 0674440757

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Ice Ages by John Imbrie,Katherine Palmer Imbrie Pdf

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.