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The effect of climate on historical change represents an exciting frontier for reading and research. In this volume scholars contribute to an area of interdisciplinary study which has not been systematically explored by climatologists and historians working together.Originally published in 1981.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Paleoclimatology. --- Geologic climate --- Palaeoclimatology --- Paleoclimate --- Paleoclimatology --- Climatic changes --- Climatology --- Meteorology. Climatology --- History as a science --- History.
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Reconstructing climatic changes in deserts and their margins at a variety of scales in space and time, this book draws upon evidence from land and sea, including desert dunes, wind-blown dust, river and lake sediments, glacial moraines, plant and animal fossils, isotope geochemistry, speleothems, soils, and prehistoric archaeology. The book summarises the Cenozoic evolution of the major deserts of the Americas, Eurasia, Africa and Australia and the causes of historic floods and droughts. The book then considers the causes and consequences of desertification and proposes four key conditions for achieving ecologically sustainable use of natural resources in arid and semi-arid areas. Climate Change in Deserts is an invaluable reference for researchers and advanced students interested in the climate and geomorphology of deserts: geographers, geologists, ecologists, archaeologists, soil scientists, hydrologists, climatologists and natural resource managers.
Paleoclimatology. --- Arid regions climate. --- Climatic changes. --- Deserts --- History.
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Coastal archaeology. --- Antiquities, Prehistoric. --- Continental shelf --- Underwater archaeology. --- Paleoclimatology. --- Sea level --- Coast changes. --- Antiquities. --- Climatic factors.
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"This book reconstructs climatic changes in deserts and their margins at a variety of scales in space and time. It draws upon evidence from land and sea, including desert dunes, wind-blown dust, river and lake sediments, glacial moraines, plant and animal fossils, isotope geochemistry, speleothems, soils, and prehistoric archaeology. The book summarises the Cenozoic evolution of the major deserts of the Americas, Eurasia, Africa and Australia and the causes of historic floods and droughts. The book then considers the causes and consequences of desertification and proposes four key conditions for achieving ecologically sustainable use of natural resources in arid and semi-arid areas. Climate Change in Deserts is an invaluable reference for researchers and advanced students interested in the climate and geomorphology of deserts: geographers, geologists, ecologists, archaeologists, soil scientists, hydrologists, climatologists and natural resource managers."--
Paleoclimatology. --- Arid regions climate. --- Climatic changes. --- Deserts --- Paléoclimatologie --- Climat aride --- Climat --- History. --- Changements
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In view of the wide range of disciplines involved in Quaternary research, this book offers a one-stop resource for the Quaternary research community, since it reviews the latest techniques and provides an approach to how mollusk shell remains are used in the reconstruction of marine environments in southern South America. Written by specialists in the field, this monograph sets the scene for multidisciplinary research involving taphonomy, paleoecology, paleobiography, morphometry, shell mineralogy analysis and sclerochronology performed on mollusk assemblages and/or selected taxa, and offers a consistent picture of spatial and temporal environmental and climatic changes. .
Mollusks, Fossil. --- Paleoceanography -- Quaternary. --- Paleoclimatology -- Quaternary. --- Paleoecology -- Quaternary. --- Mollusks, Fossil --- Paleoclimatology --- Paleoceanography --- Paleoecology --- Geology --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Paleozoology --- Quaternary Period --- Climates, Quaternary --- Quaternary climates --- Quaternary climatology --- Quaternary paleoclimatology --- Earth sciences. --- Energy. --- Paleontology. --- Physical geography. --- Geobiology. --- Earth Sciences. --- Earth System Sciences. --- Biogeosciences. --- Energy, general. --- Bilateria, Fossil --- Invertebrates, Fossil --- Paleontology . --- Fossilogy --- Fossilology --- Palaeontology --- Paleontology, Zoological --- Historical geology --- Zoology --- Fossils --- Prehistoric animals in motion pictures --- Biology --- Earth sciences --- Biosphere --- Geography
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During the later part of the last century there was rapid development of the study and understanding of the changing environments of the last 2 million years. This came to provide a firm background for today's knowledge of the significance and importance of climatic change. Interdisciplinary research has been a prominent, if not essential, contributor to the successes achieved. In illustration of this connection, this volume describes here such developments in the University of Cambridge. In 1948 the University established a Subdepartment of Quaternary Research, with teaching and research
Paleobotany --- Geology, Stratigraphic --- Paleontology --- Paleoclimatology --- Archaeological geology --- Geology --- Archaeology --- Archeology --- Anthropology --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- History --- Antiquities --- Geognosy --- Geoscience --- Earth sciences --- Natural history --- Archaeogeology --- Geoarchaeology --- Geological archaeology --- Climates, Quaternary --- Quaternary climates --- Quaternary climatology --- Quaternary paleoclimatology --- Quaternary Period --- History. --- Reid, Clement, --- Reid, C. --- University of Cambridge.
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IJstijden. --- Klimaatveranderingen. --- Climatic changes. --- Climat --- Changements --- Sea level. --- Paleoclimatology --- Mer --- Changements. --- Niveau --- International Balzan Foundation. --- Accademia nazionale dei Lincei. --- Akademien der Wissenschaften Schweiz. --- Fondation internationale Balzan-Fonds. --- Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei --- Académies suisses des sciences. --- Accademia nazionale dei Lincei --- Académies suisses des sciences.
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This book describes thoroughly the North American Climate of the past 65 million years, with special emphasis on the last 21,000 years, as revealed by paleoclimatic observations and climate models. It analyzes weather observations over the past century and satellite measurements of the last few decades to develop a picture of more recent climatic trends. It explains how global climate models are used to simulate and project climate, and presents the application of these models to reproduce recent climate variations and predict future North American climate. It answers the critical question of whether observed climate change is due to natural variations or human activity. .
Climatic changes -- Economic aspects. --- Climatic changes. --- Global warming -- Economic aspects. --- Climatic changes --- Paleoclimatology --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Meteorology & Climatology --- Observations --- Simulation methods --- Changes, Climatic --- Climate change --- Climate changes --- Climate variations --- Climatic change --- Climatic fluctuations --- Climatic variations --- Global climate changes --- Global climatic changes --- Environmental aspects --- Earth sciences. --- Atmospheric sciences. --- Physical geography. --- Climate change. --- Earth Sciences. --- Atmospheric Sciences. --- Climate Change. --- Physical Geography. --- Climatology --- Climate change mitigation --- Teleconnections (Climatology) --- Changes in climate --- Climate change science --- Geography --- Atmospheric sciences --- Earth sciences --- Atmosphere --- Global environmental change
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In the 1990s Richard B. Alley and his colleagues made headlines with the discovery that the last ice age came to an abrupt end over a period of only three years. In The Two-Mile Time Machine, Alley tells the fascinating history of global climate changes as revealed by reading the annual rings of ice from cores drilled in Greenland. He explains that humans have experienced an unusually temperate climate compared to the wild fluctuations that characterized most of prehistory. He warns that our comfortable environment could come to an end in a matter of years and tells us what we need to know in order to understand and perhaps overcome climate changes in the future.In a new preface, the author weighs in on whether our understanding of global climate change has altered in the years since the book was first published, what the latest research tells us, and what he is working on next.
Paleoclimatology. --- Climatic changes. --- Ice --- Analysis --- Climatic changes --- Analysis. --- Paleoclimatology --- Paléoclimatologie --- Climat --- Changements --- Climate Change. --- Geologic climate --- Palaeoclimatology --- Paleoclimate --- Climatology --- Changes, Climatic --- Changes in climate --- Climate change --- Climate change science --- Climate changes --- Climate variations --- Climatic change --- Climatic fluctuations --- Climatic variations --- Global climate changes --- Global climatic changes --- Climate change mitigation --- Teleconnections (Climatology) --- Frozen water --- Frost --- Physical geography --- Water --- analysis --- Environmental aspects --- Greenland. --- Grønland --- Groenlandia --- Grenlandii︠a︡ --- Groilandia --- Grænland --- Groenland --- Kalaallit Nunaat --- Gruntland --- Engronelant --- Engroneland --- Gronlandia --- Grēneland --- Qrenlandiya --- Chhen̳-tē --- Грэнландыя --- Hrėnlandyi︠a︡ --- Grenland --- Greunland --- Гренландия --- Гренланди --- Grenlandi --- Калааллит Нунаат --- Grónsko --- Ynys Las --- Lasynys --- Haʼaʼaahjí Hakʼaz Dineʼé Bikéyah --- Grónlandska --- Gröönimaa --- Γροιλανδία --- Gronlando --- Grenlando --- Grienlân --- Ghraonlainn --- Greenlynn --- Çheer y Sniaghtey --- Grenlandia --- Гринлэндин Арл --- Grinlėndin Arl --- 그린란드 --- Gŭrinlandŭ --- Akukittut --- גרינלנד --- Grinland --- Goronulande --- Grenlande --- Grenlandija --- Groenlandi --- Гренланд --- Groentlālpan --- Gruunlaand --- グリーンランド --- Gurīnrando --- Greenlun --- Griinland --- Verdi-lande --- Гренландий --- Grenlandiĭ --- Gröönland --- Gronelândia --- Groelândia --- Groenlanda --- Kalalit Nunat --- Grunlandya --- Gräinlound --- Groenlannia --- Grynlandyjo --- Grönlanti --- Lupanlunti --- Ґренландія --- Groenlaand --- גרינלאנד --- Grínlándì --- Grenlandėjė --- 格陵兰 --- Gelinglan --- Kalâtdlit-Nunât --- Global environmental change --- Chhen̳-t --- Grenlandėj --- Grenlandii͡ --- Grínlánd --- Gŭrinland --- Hrėnlandyi͡ --- Ice - Greenland - Analysis.
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