Encyclopedia of Paleoclimatology and Ancient Environments

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Vivien Gornitz
Springer Science & Business Media, 31 oct 2008 - 1049 páginas

Concern exists over human-generated increases in atmospheric greenhouse gases and their potential consequences to society. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 2007 finds that global temperatures have increased by 0.8oC since 1850 and that climate warming is now 'unequivocal'. While the human imprint is becoming increasingly apparent, Earth’s climate has shifted dramatically and frequently during the last few million years, alternating between ice ages, when vast glaciers covered Northern Europe and much of North America, and interglacials—warm periods much like today. Farther back in geologic time, climates have differed even more from the present. Thus, to fully understand the unusual changes of the 20th century and possible future trends, these must be placed in a longer-term context extending beyond the period of instrumental records.

The Encyclopedia of Paleoclimatology and Ancient Environments, a companion volume to the recently-published Encyclopedia of World Climatology, provides the reader with an entry point to the rapidly expanding field of paleoclimatology—the study of climates of the past. Highly interdisciplinary in nature, paleoclimatology integrates information from a broad array of disciplines in the geosciences, ranging from stratigraphy, geomorphology, glaciology, paleoecology, paleobotany to geochemistry and geophysics, among others. The encyclopedia offers 230 informative articles written by over 200 well known international experts on numerous subjects, ranging from classical geological evidence to the latest research. The volume is abundantly illustrated with line-drawings, black-white and color photographs. Articles are arranged alphabetically, with extensive bibliographies and cross-references.

 

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p barkerlancaster ac uk Torsten Bickert
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Ocean Paleocirculation
22
Radiolaria
34
Maximum
57
Andrew A Lacis
66
Mark Pagani
74
Robert R Gaines and Mary L Droser
85
Antarctic Glaciation History
91
Didier Paillard
498
Late Quaternary Megafloods
504
Colgan
596
Michael Widdowson
605
Eawag P O Box 1172 Blindern 0318 Oslo
611
Loess Deposits
612
David Archer
619
Marine Clay Minerals
625

Borehole Climatology
103
Archean Environments
111
Abraham Lerman
117
Bernhard Stauffer
123
Ján Veizer
132
Torsten Bickert
138
Bremen
142
Dan Bosence
147
Franck Bassinotlsce ipsl fr Kjell R Bjørklund
151
Wright
155
Hays
163
Thomas J Crowley
173
Michael E Mann
181
Robert W Dalrymple and Kyungsik Choi
187
Anne de Vernal
282
Kyungsik Choi Avenue des Facultés
300
Coccoliths
345
284
380
Karen E Kohfeld and Ina Tegen
388
Earth Laws and Paleoclimatology
394
Electrical Conductivity
403
Eolian Sediments and Processes
413
Eolianite
425
320
436
Evolution and Climate Change
446
Foraminifera
452
Manik Talwani
477
Andrew Goudie
478
Lacustrine Sediments
485
Mark B Abbott and Lesleigh Anderson
492
Glacial Erratics
494
Garland R Upchurch
634
Roger Francois
643
Jeremy R Young
672
COHMAP
712
Ocean Paleoproductivity
757
Ocean Paleotemperatures
763
Cronin
770
Glacial Eustasy
775
Gilles Delaygue
779
Paleocean Modeling
795
Katrin J Meissner Alvaro Montenegro and Chris Avis
804
PaleoceneEocene Thermal Maximum
812
Robert J Oglesby and Kirk A Maasch
823
Donald R Prothero
833
Red Beds
837
PaleoOcean
840
Quaternary Vegetation Distribution
856
Sheldon
872
Continental Sediments
873
Jan Mangerud
879
Kenneth G Miller
886
Vivien Gornitz
892
Michael S Kearney
902
Young
910
Speleothems
916
Germán Mora
923
Glacial Geomorphology
949
Corals and Coral Reefs
960
Ján Veizer
999
Sulfur Isotopes
1014
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