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Ice Ages and Interglacials: Measurements, Interpretation, and Models

By Donald Rapp (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year
2012
ISBN
978-3-642-30028-8, 978-3-642-30029-5
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-30029-5
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
9 MB (9919998 bytes)
Series
Springer Praxis Books
Edition
2
Pages
406\420
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2013-10-26 01:57:44
Astrophysics and Cosmology; Climate Change; OceanoMeteorology/Climatology; Astronomy

Description

The second edition of this book has been completely updated. It studies the history and gives an analysis of extreme climate change on Earth. In order to provide a long-term perspective, the first chapter briefly reviews some of the wild gyrations that occurred in the Earth's climate hundreds of millions of years ago: snowball Earth and hothouse Earth. Coming closer to modern times, the effects of continental drift, particularly the closing of the Isthmus of Panama are believed to have contributed to the advent of ice ages in the past three million years. This first chapter sets the stage for a discussion of ices ages in the geological recent past (i.e. within the last three million years, with an emphasis on the last few hundred thousand years).

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