Author: R. A. DalyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
The Changing World of the Ice Age
Author: R. A. DalyThe Changing World of the Ice Age
Author: Reginald Aldworth DalyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Frozen Earth
Author: Doug MacdougallPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520954947
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
In this engrossing and accessible book, Doug Macdougall explores the causes and effects of ice ages that have gripped our planet throughout its history, from the earliest known glaciation—nearly three billion years ago—to the present. Following the development of scientific ideas about these dramatic events, Macdougall traces the lives of many of the brilliant and intriguing characters who have contributed to the evolving understanding of how ice ages come about. As it explains how the great Pleistocene Ice Age has shaped the earth's landscape and influenced the course of human evolution, Frozen Earth also provides a fascinating look at how science is done, how the excitement of discovery drives scientists to explore and investigate, and how timing and chance play a part in the acceptance of new scientific ideas. Macdougall describes the awesome power of cataclysmic floods that marked the melting of the glaciers of the Pleistocene Ice Age. He probes the chilling evidence for "Snowball Earth," an episode far back in the earth's past that may have seen our planet encased in ice from pole to pole. He discusses the accumulating evidence from deep-sea sediment cores, as well as ice cores from Greenland and the Antarctic, that suggests fast-changing ice age climates may have directly impacted the evolution of our species and the course of human migration and civilization. Frozen Earth also chronicles how the concept of the ice age has gripped the imagination of scientists for almost two centuries. It offers an absorbing consideration of how current studies of Pleistocene climate may help us understand earth's future climate changes, including the question of when the next glacial interval will occur.
The Changing World of the Ice Age
Author: Reginald Aldworth DalyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology, Stratigraphic
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
The Changing World of the Ice Age
Author: Reginald Aldworth DalyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology, Stratigraphic
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Ice Age
Author: John GribbinPublisher: Allan Lane
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
"John and Mary Gribbin tell the remarkable story of how we came to understand the phenomenon of Ice Ages, focusing on the key personalities obsessed with the search for answers. How frequently do Ice Ages occur? How do astronomical rhythms affect the Earth's climate? Have there always been two polar ice caps? Is it true that tiny changes in the heat balance of the Earth could plunge us back into full Ice Age conditions? With startling new material on how the last major Ice Epoch could have hastened human evolution, Ice Age explains why the Earth was once covered in ice - and how that made us human."--BOOK JACKET.
The Changing World of the Ice Age, by Reginald Aldworth Daly...
Author: Reginald Aldworth DalyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
After the Ice Age
Author: E.C. PielouPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226668096
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
The fascinating story of how a harsh terrain that resembled modern Antarctica has been transformed gradually into the forests, grasslands, and wetlands we know today.
The Great Ice Age
Author: J.A. ChapmanPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134640323
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
The Great Ice Age documents and explains the natural climatic and palaeoecologic changes that have occurred during the past 2.6 million years, outlining the emergence and global impact of our species during this period. Exploring a wide range of records of climate change, the authors demonstrate the interconnectivity of the components of the Earths climate system, show how the evidence for such change is obtained, and explain some of the problems in collecting and dating proxy climate data. One of the most dramatic aspects of humanity's rise is that it coincided with the beginnings of major environmental changes and a mass extinction that has the pace, and maybe magnitude, of those in the far-off past that stemmed from climate, geological and occasionally extraterrestrial events. This book reveals that anthropogenic effects on the world are not merely modern matters but date back perhaps a million years or more.
The Ice Age and Climate Change
Author: Jake HebertPublisher:
ISBN: 9781946246349
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description