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1 online resource (413 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781118897379
Content:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Author Biography -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- References -- Chapter 2 The Great Cooling -- 2.1 The Founding Fathers -- 2.2 Charles Lyell, 'Father of Palaeoclimatology' -- 2.3 Agassiz Discovers the Ice Age -- 2.4 Lyell Defends Icebergs -- References -- Chapter 3 Ice Age Cycles -- 3.1 The Astronomical Theory of Climate Change -- 3.2 James Croll Develops the Theory -- 3.3 Lyell Responds -- 3.4 Croll Defends his Position -- 3.5 Even More Ancient Ice Ages -- 3.6 Not Everyone Agrees -- References -- Chapter 4 Trace Gases Warm the Planet -- 4.1 De Saussure's Hot Box -- 4.2 William Herschel's Accidental Discovery -- 4.3 Discovering Carbon Dioxide -- 4.4 Fourier, the 'Newton of Heat', Discovers the 'Greenhouse Effect' -- 4.5 Tyndall Shows How the 'Greenhouse Effect' Works -- 4.6 Arrhenius Calculates How CO2 Affects Air Temperature -- 4.7 Chamberlin's Theory of Gases and Ice Ages -- References -- Chapter 5 Moving Continents and Dating Rocks -- 5.1 The Continents Drift -- 5.2 The Seafloor Spreads -- 5.3 The Dating Game -- 5.4 Base Maps for Palaeoclimatology -- 5.5 The Evolution of the Modern World -- References -- Chapter 6 Mapping Past Climates -- 6.1 Climate Indicators -- 6.2 Palaeoclimatologists Get to Work -- 6.3 Palaeomagneticians Enter the Field -- 6.4 Oxygen Isotopes to the Rescue -- 6.5 Cycles and Astronomy -- 6.6 Pangaean Palaeoclimates (Carboniferous, Permian, Triassic) -- 6.7 Post-Break-Up Palaeoclimates (Jurassic, Cretaceous) -- 6.8 Numerical Models Make their Appearance -- 6.9 From Wegener to Barron -- References -- Chapter 7 Into the Icehouse -- 7.1 Climate Clues from the Deep Ocean -- 7.2 Palaeoceanography -- 7.3 The World's Freezer -- 7.4 The Drill Bit Turns -- 7.5 Global Cooling -- 7.6 Arctic Glaciation -- References.
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Additional Edition:
9781118897393
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Summerhayes, Colin P. Earth's climate evolution Oxford : Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge ; Wiley Blackwell, 2015 9781118897393
Additional Edition:
1118897390
Language:
English
Subjects:
Geography
Keywords:
Paläoklimatologie
;
Paläoklima
;
Klimaänderung
;
Kohlendioxid
;
Carbon dioxide capture and storage
;
Kohlendioxidemission
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