Ice Ages and Interglacials

Ice Ages and Interglacials
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Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages : 421
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ISBN-10 : 9783642300295
ISBN-13 : 3642300294
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Download or read book Ice Ages and Interglacials written by Donald Rapp and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-07-03 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of this book has been completely updated. It 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 ices ages in the geological recent past (i.e. within the last three million years, with an emphasis on the last few hundred thousand years).


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