Antarctic climate evolution /
This is the first book dedicated to the developing knowledge on how the world's largest ice sheet formed and changed over its 34 million years history. In explaining the story of Antarctica, information on terrestrial and marine geology, sedimentology, glacier geophysics (including airborne rec...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Amsterdam ; London :
Elsevier,
2009.
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Edición: | 1st ed. |
Colección: | Developments in earth & environmental sciences ;
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo Texto completo |
Sumario: | This is the first book dedicated to the developing knowledge on how the world's largest ice sheet formed and changed over its 34 million years history. In explaining the story of Antarctica, information on terrestrial and marine geology, sedimentology, glacier geophysics (including airborne reconnaissance), shipborne geophysics, and numerical ice sheet and climate modelling, will be interwoven within eleven chapters, each deling with an important historical theme. The approach will be to first 'set the scene', involving chapters dedicated to how ice sheets and their glacial history can be measured. This opening section will provide information necessary to comprehend the latter section of the book, in which five chapters will related the glacial and climate evolution of Antarctica during the most important time-frames in which changes have occurred. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 593 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780080931616 0080931618 |
ISSN: | 1571-9197 ; |