Paleoclimates:understanding climate change past and present
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Columbia University Press,
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Publisher Address: | New York |
Publication Dates: | c2010. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Carrier Form: | xviii, 441 p.: ill., maps ; 29 cm. |
ISBN: |
9780231144940 (cloth : alk. paper) 0231144946 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780231516365 (ebook) 0231516363 (ebook) |
Index Number: | P532 |
CLC: | P532 |
Call Number: | P532/C947 |
Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-431) and index. Paleoclimatology and modern challenges -- Methods in paleoclimatology -- Deep time : climate from 3.8 billion to 65 million years ago -- Cenozoic climate -- Orbital climate change -- Glacial millennial climate change -- Millennial climate events during deglaciation -- Holocene climate variability -- Abrupt climate events -- Internal modes of climate variability -- The anthropocene I : global and hemispheric temperature -- The anthropocene II : climatic and hydrological change during the last 2000 years. |