Ice Ages
Author: John Imbrie
Publisher: Palgrave
Published: 2013-12-31
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781349047017
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Ice Ages and Astronomical Causes
Author: Richard A. Muller
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2002-08-26
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9783540437796
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt is not possible to understand the present or future climate unless scientists can account for the enormous and rapid cycles of glaciation that have taken place over the last million years, and which are expected to continue into the future. A great deal has happened in the theory of the ice ages over the last decade, and it is now widley accepted that ice ages are driven by changes in the Earth's orbit. The study of ice ages is very inter-disciplinary, covering geology, physics, glaciology, oceanography, atmospheric science, planetary orbit calculations astrophysics and statistics.
Ice Age
Author: John Gribbin
Publisher: Allan Lane
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 120
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"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.
Ice Ages
Author: John Imbrie
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780674440753
DOWNLOAD EBOOKScientists 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.
Ice Ages and Interglacials
Author: Donald Rapp
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-07-03
Total Pages: 421
ISBN-13: 3642300294
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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).
Discovering the Ice Ages
Author: Tobias Krüger
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2013-06-17
Total Pages: 554
ISBN-13: 9004241701
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTobias Krüger explores the discovery of the Ice Ages, how the idea was received, and what further research it stimulated. The approach used in Discovering the Ice Ages is uniquely sweeping. The contemporary debates on the subject are compared from an international perspective. Krüger retraces the arguments advanced from the middle of the 18th century to the threshold of the 20th century. The positions held by defenders of the glacial theory as well as those by its most important opponents are set within the context of the then current understanding of geology. In an interdisciplinary overview Krüger then focuses on the impetus gained from early ice-age research. The most prominent examples worth mentioning are the discovery of trace gases and the greenhouse effect.
Ice Ages
Author: Allan Mazur
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-02-10
Total Pages: 275
ISBN-13: 1009021060
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat causes Ice Ages? How did we learn about them? What were their affects on the social history of humanity? Allan Mazur's book tells the appealing history of the scientific 'discovery' of Ice Ages. How we learned that much of the Earth was repeatedly covered by huge ice sheets, why that occurred, and how the waning of the last Ice Age paved the way for agrarian civilization and, ultimately, our present social structures. The book discusses implications for the current 'controversies' over anthropogenic climate change, public understanding of science, and (lack of) 'trust in experts'. In parallel to the history and science of Ice Ages, sociologist Mazur highlights why this is especially relevant right now for humanity. Ice Ages: Their Social and Natural History is an engrossing combination of natural science and social history: glaciology and sociology writ large.
Pre-Mesozoic Ice Ages
Author: John C. Crowell
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Published: 1999-01-01
Total Pages: 126
ISBN-13: 9780813711928
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAncient ice ages are revealed by distinctive stratal facies that tell us much about the times of coolness and how the climate system works. Several strong ice ages were recorded in the late Paleozic time and during transitions from the Devonian in to the Carboniferous and from the Ordovician in to the Silurian. In Precambrian time, several are documented for both the late and early Proterozoic age. This title explores findings on the pre-Mesozoic ice ages, examining climate in relation to tectonobiogeochemical activities rooted in the changing earth-air-ocean system.
New Mexico's Ice Ages
Author: Spencer G. Lucas
Publisher: New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
Published: 2005-01-01
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13:
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