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| The Authors | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Book Introduction for Students and Instructors | |
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| Introduction to Paleoclimate Records | |
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| Archives and Proxies | |
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| Owens Lake - An Introductory Case Study of Paleoclimate Reconstruction | |
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| Coring Glacial Ice and Seafloor Sediments | |
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| Seafloor Sediments | |
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| Sediment Predictions | |
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| Core Observations and Descriptions | |
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| Sediment Composition | |
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| Geographic Distribution and Interpretation | |
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| Microfossils and Biostratigraphy | |
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| What are Microfossils? Why are they Important in Climate Change Science? | |
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| Microfossils in Deep-sea Sediments | |
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| Application of Microfossil First and Last Occurrences | |
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| Using Microfossil Datums to Calculate Rates | |
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| How Reliable are Microfossil Datums? | |
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| Paleomagnetism and Magnetostratigraphy | |
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| Earth's Magnetic Field Today and the Paleomagnetic Record of Deep-Sea Sediments | |
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| Paleomagnetism in Ocean Crust | |
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| Using Paleomagnetism to Test the Seafloor Spreading Hypothesis | |
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| The Geomagnetic Polarity Time Scale | |
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| CO<sub>2</sub> as a Climate Regulator during the Phanerozoic and Today | |
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| The Short Term Global Carbon Cycle | |
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| CO<sub>2</sub> and Temperature | |
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| Recent Changes in CO<sub>2</sub> | |
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| The Long-term Global Carbon Cycle, CO<sub>2,</sub> and Phanerozoic Climate History | |
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| The Benthic Foraminiferal Oxygen Isotope Record of Cenozoic Climate Change | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Stable Isotope Geochemistry | |
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| A Biogeochemical Proxy | |
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| Patterns, Trends and Implications for Cenozoic Climate | |
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| Scientific Drilling in the Arctic Ocean: A Lesson on the Nature of Science | |
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| Climate Models and Regional Climate Change | |
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| Arctic Drilling Challenges and Solutions | |
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| The Need for Scientific Drilling | |
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| Results of the Arctic Drilling Expedition | |
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| Climate Cycles | |
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| Patterns and Periodicities | |
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| Orbital Metronome | |
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| A Break in the Pattern | |
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| The Paleocene Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) Event | |
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| The Cenozoic �948;<sup>13</sup>C Record and an Important Discovery | |
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| Global Consequences of the PETM | |
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| Bad Gas: Is Methane to Blame? | |
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| How fast? How long? | |
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| Global Warming Today and Lessons from the PETM | |
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| Glaciation of Antarctica: The Oi1 Event | |
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| Initial Evidence | |
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| Evidence for Global Change | |
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| Mountain Building, Weathering, CO<sub>2</sub> and Climate | |
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| Legacy of the Oi1 Event: The Development of the Psychrosphere | |
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| Antarctica and Neogene Global Climate Change | |
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| What do we Think we Know about the History of Antarctic Climate? | |
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| What is Antarctica's Geographic & Geologic Context? | |
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| Selecting Drillsites to Best Answer our Questions | |
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| Interpreting Antarctic Sediment Cores: A Record of Dynamic Neogene Climate | |
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| What Sediment Facies are Common on the Antarctic Margin? | |
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| ANDRILL 1-B The BIG Picture | |
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| Pliocene Sedimentary Patterns in the ANDRILL 1-B Core | |
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| Pliocene Warmth: Are We Seeing Our Future? | |
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| The last 5 million years | |
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| Sea Level Past, Present, and Future | |
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| Northern Hemisphere Glaciation | |
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| Concepts & Predictions | |
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| What is the Evidence? | |
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| What Caused It? | |
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| Index | |