Ice Ages And Interglacials
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Ice Ages and Interglacials
Author | : Donald Rapp |
Publsiher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 2009-08-22 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9783540896807 |
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This book studies the history and gives an analysis of extreme climate change on Earth. In order to provide a long-term perspective, the first chapter briefly reviews some of the wild gyrations that occurred in the Earth’s climate hundreds of millions of years ago: snowball Earth and hothouse Earth. Coming closer to modern times, the effects of continental drift, particularly the closing of the Isthmus of Panama are believed to have contributed to the advent of ice ages in the past three million years. This first chapter sets the stage for a discussion of ice ages in the geological recent past (i.e. within the last three million years, with an emphasis on the last few hundred thousand years). The second chapter discusses geological evidence for ice ages – how geologists surmised their existence prior to actual subsurface data that proved the theory. The following two chapters look at ice cores (primarily from Greenland and Antarctica). Chapter 3 discusses how ice core data is processed and Chapter 4 summarizes data obtained from ice cores. Chapter 5 discusses the processing of data obtained from ocean sediments, and summarizes the results, while the following chapter discusses data from other sources, such as "Devil’s Cave." Chapter 7 summarizes the experimental results from Chapters 4, 5, and 6. It provides the foundation for comparison with theories in later chapters. In a perfect world, this data would be totally separate and disconnected from theory. Unfortunately, as the author shows, dating of much of the data was accomplished by "tuning" to the astronomical theory, which introduces circular reasoning. Chapter 8 provides a brief overview of the various theories that have been devised to "explain" the patterns of alternating ice ages and interglacials that have occurred over the past three million years. This serves as an introduction to the following three chapters which presents the astronomical theory in its various manifestations, compare the astronomical theory with data, and then compare other theories with data. Finally, Chapter 12 summarizes what we think we know about ice ages and, more importantly, what we don’t know.
Ice Ages
Author | : John Imbrie,Katherine Palmer Imbrie |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674440757 |
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Scientists charged with producing a map of the earth during the last ice age ultimately confirmed the theory that the earth's irregular orbital motions account for the bizarre climatic changes which bring on ice ages. This book tells the story of those periods--what they were like, why they occurred, and when the next ice age is due.
The Ice Age
Author | : Jürgen Ehlers |
Publsiher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 2022-08-19 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9783662645901 |
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Nothing new from the Ice Age? Far from it! Barely ten years have passed since the first edition of this book was published, but in that time researchers around the world have developed new methods and published their findings in scientific journals. Consequently, ideas about the course of the Ice Age have changed dramatically. The sequence of the individual ice advances, the direction of ice movement and the direction of meltwater drainage are only partially known, but they can be reconstructed. This book offers in-depth information about the state of the investigations. Ice ages are the periods of the earth's history in which at least one polar region is glaciated or covered by sea ice. Thus, we are currently living in an Ice Age. The present Ice Age is also the period in which humans started to intervene in the shaping of the earth. The results are obvious. Aerial and satellite images can be used to trace the melting of glaciers, but also the decay of the Arctic permafrost, and the clearing of the Brazilian rainforest. This book is a translation of the original German 2nd edition Das Eiszeitalter by Juergen Ehlers, published by Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature, in 2020. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation. Springer Nature works continuously to further the development of tools for the production of books and promotes technologies to support the authors.
Global Warming Cycles
Author | : Julie Kerr Casper |
Publsiher | : Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Climatic changes |
ISBN | : 9780816072620 |
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Focuses on the mechanisms that caused past climate changes, putting the Earth repeatedly into and out of ice ages.
Ice Ages Recent and Ancient
Author | : Arthur Philemon Coleman |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : UVA:X000112716 |
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The Quaternary Ice Age
Author | : William Bourke Wright |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 558 |
Release | : 1937 |
Genre | : Geology, Stratigraphic |
ISBN | : UCAL:B5022508 |
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