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'Earth's climate has undergone dramatic changes over the geologic timescale. At one extreme, Earth has been glaciated from the poles to the equator for periods that may have lasted millions of years. At another, temperatures were once so warm that the Canadian Arctic was heavily forested a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Bender, Michael L. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Paläoklima
Paleoclimatology.
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Meteorology & Climatology.
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Geology.
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Geography.
Paleoclimatologie.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Earth's climate system
  • The faint young sun
  • Precambrian glaciations
  • Regulation of the Earth system and global temperature
  • The late Paleozoic ages
  • Equable climates of the Mesozoic and Paleogene
  • The Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum
  • The long cooling of the Cenozoic
  • The origin of Northern Hemisphere glaciation and the Pleistocene ice ages
  • Rapid climate change during the last glacial period
  • The Holocene
  • Anthropogenic global warming in the context of paleoclimate.

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