Biotic Response to Global Change : the Last 145 Million Years.

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Investigates the reaction of life to global environmental change, for researchers and graduate students.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Culver, Stephen J.
Otros Autores: Rawson, Peter F.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Temas:
Paleoclimatology.
Climatic changes.
Climate Change
Paléoclimatologie.
Climat > Changements.
climate change.
Climatic changes
Paleoclimatology
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 The Cretaceous world; 2.1 INTRODUCTION; 2.2 CRETACEOUS PLATE TECTONICS AND PALAEOGEOGRAPHY; 2.3 IGNEOUS ACTIVITY; 2.3.1 Continental flood basalts; 2.3.2 The mid Cretaceous superplume; 2.4 BOLIDE IMPACTS; 2.5 PALAEOCEANOGRAPHY; 2.5.1 Eustasy and the great transgressions; 2.5.2 Oceanic circulation; 2.5.3 Oceanic hiatuses and deep water circulation; 2.5.4 Global persistence of chalk facies; 2.5.5 Cretaceous upwelling and productivity events; 2.5.6 Carbonate platform drowning.
  • 2.6 CRETACEOUS CLIMATES AND CLIMATIC CHANGE2.6.1 Cretaceous polar ice?; 2.6.2 Boreal vs. Tethyan faunas; 2.6.3 Oxygen isotopes from marine carbonates and fossils; 2.6.4 Cretaceous arid and humid zones; 2.6.5 Supertethys and hot tropical oceans; 2.6.6 The Cretaceous carbon cycle and its relation to climate; 2.7 CONTROLS ON CRETACEOUS CLIMATE CHANGE; 2.7.1 Long-term controls: plate tectonics; 2.7.2 Cretaceous atmospheric carbon dioxide; 2.7.3 Short-term controls: Milankovitch band; 2.8 SUMMARY; Berriasian-Barremian transitional period; Aptian-Mid Campanian greenhouse.
  • Late Campanian-Maastrichtian cooling3 The Cenozoic world; 3.1 INTRODUCTION; 3.2 CENOZOIC PLATE TECTONICS AND PALAEOGEOGRAPHY; 3.3 IGNEOUS ACTIVITY; 3.4 BOLIDE IMPACTS; 3.4.1 The K-T boundary event; 3.4.2 Later impacts; 3.5 PALAEOCEANOGRAPHY; 3.6 CENOZOIC CLIMATES; 3.6.1 Long-term climate change; 3.6.2 Quaternary climate change; 3.7 CONTROLS ON CENOZOIC CLIMATE CHANGE; 3.7.1 Plate tectonics; 3.7.2 Ocean-atmosphere interaction; 3.7.3 Milankovitch cyclicity; 3.8 SEA-LEVEL CHANGE: CAUSES AND RATES; 3.9 SUMMARY; Paleocene-Eocene greenhouse period; Oligocene-Recent icehouse period.
  • 4 Calcareous nannoplankton and global climate change4.1 INTRODUCTION
  • THE NATURE OF NANNOPLANKTON; 4.2 NANNOPLANKTON AS AGENTS OF GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE; 4.2.1 Primary production; 4.2.2 Calcifcation; 4.2.3 Dimethyl sulphide and global albedo; 4.3 NANNOPLANKTON AS RECORDERS OF GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE: CONTROLS ON BIOGEOGRAPHY; 4.3.1 Evolutionary dispersal/vicariance; 4.3.2 Environment; 4.3.3 Depth structure; 4.4 MESOZOIC AND CENOZOIC NANNOFOSSIL PALAEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; 4.4.1 Environment; 4.5 NANNOFOSSILS AND CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE CRETACEOUS INDIAN OCEAN; 4.5.1 Background; 4.5.2 Case study.
  • 4.6 CONCLUSIONS5 Phenotypic response of foraminifera to episodes of global environmental change; 5.1 INTRODUCTION; 5.2 MATERIALS AND METHODS; 5.2.1 Morphotype analyses; 5.2.2 Heterochronic analyses; 5.3 TARGET GLOBAL CHANGE EVENTS; 5.3.1 The Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) event; 5.3.2 The Paleocene-Eocene (P-E) thermal maximum event; 5.3.3 The Eocene-Oligocene (E-O) event; 5.4 PATTERNS OF MORPHOTYPIC VARIATION; 5.4.1 Planktonic foraminifera; 5.4.2 Benthic foraminifera; 5.5 PATTERNS OF DEVELOPMENTAL AND LIFE-H ISTORY VARIATION; 5.5.1 Heterochronic response across the K-T boundary.
  • 5.5.2 Heterochronic response across the P-E boundary.

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