Climate Modes of the Phanerozoic

Name: Climate Modes of the Phanerozoic
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ISBN: 9780521021944

ISBN-10: 0521021944

ISBN-13: 9780521021944

Edition: 2005

Authors: Lawrence A. Frakes, Jane E. Francis, Jozef I. Syktus

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This book views the Earth's climate as a global system, by describing the evolution of climate throughout the past 600 million years, from the Cambrian to the Quaternary. Palaeoclimates are examined in terms of Cold and Warm modes--phases during which the Earth's climates were either relatively cool with ice forming in high latitudes or when high levels of CO2 led to "greenhouse" warmings and temperate floras and faunas inhabited polar regions. Evidence for climate changes, such as biological indicators, geochemical parameters, and the presence of ice, are compared between these modes. These studies have highlighted the crucial role of tectonics and continental distribution in governing…

Book details

List price: $58.99
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 11/3/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.69" wide x 9.61" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 1.012
Language: English



Preface


Introduction



The early Cambrian to late Ordovician Warm Mode



The late Ordovician to early Silurian Cool Mode



The late Silurian to early Carboniferous Warm Mode



The early Carboniferous to late Permian Cool Mode



The late Permian to middle Jurassic Warm Mode



The middle Jurassic to early Cretaceous Cool Mode



The late Cretaceous to early Tertiary Warm Mode



The Cenozoic Cool Mode: early Eocene - late Miocene



The Cenozoic Cool Mode: late Miocene - Holocene



Causes and Chronology of Climate Change


Bibliography


Index