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Preface | |
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Contemporary Issues in Climate Change: The Role of Paleoclimatology | |
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Models and Observations | |
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Paleoclimatology: The Time Dimension | |
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Early Thoughts and Contemporary Sources | |
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A Brief Outline of This Book | |
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Principles of Paleoclimatology | |
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Introduction: A Multidisciplinary Approach in Paleoclimatology | |
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Defining the Principles of Paleoclimatology | |
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Causes of Climate Change: The Climate System | |
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"Time Is of the Essence" | |
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Strategies to Study Climate History | |
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The Development of an Annual-Resolution Deglacial Chronology | |
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Proxies of Climate | |
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The Evolution of Glacial-Age Climatology | |
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Vital Effects: Biological Aspects of Paleoclimatology | |
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Biological Principles in Paleoclimatology | |
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A Conceptual Framework of Biology and Climate Change | |
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Scale in Paleoclimatology | |
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Real Biological Entities or Heuristic Constructs? | |
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Biological Concepts in Paleoclimatology | |
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Summary | |
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Orbital Climate Change | |
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The Jia-Yi Monument | |
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Early Development of Orbital Theory | |
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Support for Orbital Theory from Geochronology | |
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The Deep-Sea Record of Orbital Climate Change | |
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Fundamental Tenets of Modern Orbital Theory | |
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Geologic and Biotic Evidence for Orbital Climate Change | |
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Challenges to Orbital Theory | |
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Modeling Orbital Climate Change | |
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Closing Comments | |
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Millennial-Scale Climate Change | |
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Dryas octopetala | |
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Early Evidence for Rapid Climate Change | |
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Ice and Millennial-Scale Climate Change | |
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The Younger Dryas and Other Rapid Climate Events During Deglaciation | |
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Heinrich Events and Dansgaard-Oeschger Cycles: Millennial-Scale Climate Change During | |
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Glacial Periods | |
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The Eemian: Climatic Variability During the Last Interglacial Period | |
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Summary | |
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Holocene Centennial and Decadal Climatic Variability | |
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Polar Bears and Potatoes: Human History and Holocene Climate | |
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Classical Holocene Climate Chronology | |
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Early and Middle Holocene Climatic History | |
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Late Holocene Climate History | |
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Forcing Mechanisms of Centennial and Decadal Holocene Climate | |
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Concluding Remarks | |
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Interannual Climate Change in the Tropics: ENSO | |
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La Corriente del Nino | |
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Interannual Paleoclimatology | |
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Aspects of the Modern El Nino--Southern Oscillation | |
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Paleoclimate Records of Tropical Seasonal and Interannual Climate | |
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Goddard Institute of Space Studies General Circulation Model of Isotopic Response to Interannual Climate | |
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Sea-Level Change | |
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By Land or by Sea? | |
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Early Concepts of Sea-Level Change | |
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Geological, Geochemical, Geophysical, and Biological Evidence for Sea-Level Change | |
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Processes Affecting Sea-Level Change | |
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Cenozoic Sea Level: Tectono-eustasy Versus Glacio-eustasy | |
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Quaternary Sea-Level History | |
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Historical Sea-Level Change | |
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Summary | |
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Paleo-atmospheres: The Ice-Core Record of Climate Change | |
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Atmospheric Change: Human and Natural Factors | |
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The Ice-Core Record of Paleo-atmospheres and Climate Change | |
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"One Thousand Centuries": The Camp Century Climate Record | |
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Climate Proxies from Ice Cores | |
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The Dating and Correlation of Ice Cores | |
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Glacial-Interglacial Climate, Carbon Dioxide, and Methane | |
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Millennial-Scale Atmospheric Variability and Climatic Change | |
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The "Flickering Switch" of Climate | |
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Mechanisms of Climate Change | |
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References | |
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Index | |