UID:
almafu_9958067038302883
Format:
1 online resource (xx, 675 pages )
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illustrations, maps (some color) ;
Edition:
Third edition.
ISBN:
0-12-386995-1
Note:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Introduction --
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Sources of Paleoclimatic Information --
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Levels of Paleoclimatic Analysis --
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Modeling in Paleoclimatic Research --
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The Nature of Climate and Climatic Variation --
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The Climate System --
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Feedback Mechanisms --
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Energy Balance of the Earth and Its Atmosphere --
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Timescales of Climatic Variation --
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Variations of the Earth's Orbital Parameters --
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Solar Forcing --
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Volcanic Forcing --
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Introduction and Overview --
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Radioisotopic Methods --
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Radiocarbon Dating --
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Potassium-Argon Dating (40K/40Ar) --
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Uranium-Series Dating --
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Luminescence Dating: Principles and Applications --
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Surface Exposure Dating --
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Fission-Track Dating --
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Paleomagnetism --
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The Earth's Magnetic Field --
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Magnetization of Rocks and Sediments --
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The Paleomagnetic Timescale --
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Geomagnetic Excursions --
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Relative Paleointensity Variations --
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Secular Variations of the Earth's Magnetic Field --
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Dating Methods Involving Chemical Changes
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Amino Acid Dating --
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Obsidian Hydration Dating --
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Tephrochronology --
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Biological Dating Methods --
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Lichenometry --
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Dendrochronology --
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Introduction --
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Stable Isotope Analysis --
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Stable Isotopes in Water: Measurement and Standardization --
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Oxygen-18 Concentration in Atmospheric Precipitation --
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Factors Affecting the Stable Isotope Record in Ice Cores --
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Deuterium Excess --
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Dating Ice Cores --
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Radioisotopic Methods --
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Seasonal Variations and Episodic Events --
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Theoretical Models --
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Chronostratigraphic Correlations --
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Paleoclimatic Reconstruction from Ice Cores --
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Ice-Core Records from Greenland --
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Ice-Core Records from Antarctica --
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Past Atmospheric Composition from Polar Ice Cores --
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Greenhouse Gas Records in Ice Cores --
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Ice-Core Records from Low Latitudes --
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Introduction --
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Paleoclimatic Information from Biological Material in Ocean Cores --
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Oxygen Isotope Studies of Calcareous Marine Fauna --
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Isotopic Composition of the Oceans --
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Oxygen Isotope Stratigraphy --
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Orbital Tuning --
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Orbital Forcing: Evidence from the Marine Record
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Speleothems as Indicators of Sea-Level Variations --
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Sedimentology and Inorganic Geochemistry --
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Varves --
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Pollen, Macrofossils, and Phytoliths --
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Ostracods --
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Diatoms --
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Stable Isotopes --
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Organic Biomarkers --
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Introduction --
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Periglacial Features --
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Snowlines and Glaciation Thresholds --
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The Climatic and Paleoclimatic Interpretation of Snowlines and ELAs --
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The Age of Former Snowlines --
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Mountain Glacier Fluctuations --
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Evidence of Glacier Fluctuations --
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The Record of Glacier Front Positions --
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Lake-level Fluctuations --
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Hydrologic Balance Models --
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Hydrologic-Energy Balance Models --
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Regional Patterns of Lake-Level Fluctuations --
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Introduction --
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Insects --
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Paleoclimatic Reconstructions Based on Fossil Coleoptera --
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Paleoclimatic Reconstruction Based on Aquatic Insects --
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Former Vegetation Distribution from Plant Macrofossils --
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Arctic Tree Line Fluctuations --
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Alpine Tree Line Fluctuations --
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Lower Tree Line Fluctuations and Rodent Middens --
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Peat --
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Introduction --
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The Basis of Pollen Analysis
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Pollen Grain Characteristics --
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Pollen Productivity and Dispersal: The Pollen Rain --
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Sources of Fossil Pollen --
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Preparation of the Samples --
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Pollen Analysis of a Site: The Pollen Diagram --
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Zonation of the Pollen Diagram --
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Pollen Rain as a Representation of Vegetation Composition and Climate --
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Maps of Modern Pollen Data --
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Mapping Vegetation Change: Isopolls and Isochrones --
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How Rapidly Does Vegetation Respond to Changes in Climate? --
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Quantitative Paleoclimatic Reconstructions Based on Pollen Analysis --
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Paleoclimatic Reconstruction from Long Quaternary Pollen Records --
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Europe --
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Sabana de Bogota, Colombia --
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Central American Lowlands --
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Amazonia --
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Equatorial and Sub-Saharan Africa --
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Northeastern Siberia --
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Introduction --
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Fundamentals of Dendroclimatology --
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Sample Selection --
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Cross Dating --
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Standardization of Ring-Width Data --
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Divergence --
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Calibration of Tree-Ring Data --
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Verification of Climatic Reconstructions --
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Dendroclimatic Reconstructions --
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Reconstructions of Temperatures over the Northern Hemisphere
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-12-386913-7
Language:
English
