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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 |
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Amsterdam ; London :
Elsevier,
2009.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
| Colección: | Developments in earth & environmental sciences ;
8. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. The International Polar Years: A history of developments in Antarctic Climate Evolution. 3. History of Geological Investigations in Antarctica. 4; Circulation and water masses of the Southern Ocean: a review. 5. Cenozoic climate history from seismic-reflection and drilling studies on the Antarctic continental margin. 6. Numerical modelling of the Antarctic ice sheet. 7. The geological record of Antarctica in the late Neoproterozoic-Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the Southern Hemisphere. 8. From Greenhouse to Icehouse -The Eocene/Oligocene in Antarctica. 9. Oligocene-Miocene boundary. 10. Middle Miocene to Pliocene History of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. 11. Pleistocene glacial cycles and interval of extreme warmth and cold. 12. Last glacial maximum, deglaciation and the holocene. 13. Trends and Future Perspectives.