Interpreting Pre–Quarternary Climate from the Geologic Record  -  Judith Totman Parrish

Critical Moments and Perspectives in Earth History and Paleobiology

KORTE INHOUD

Within the geological science of paleoclimatology, the earth's pre-Quaternary period--more than two million years ago-has been studied systematically only since the 1960's, when geologists started to take seriously the concept that the continents have changed position on the earth's surface. In the decades since, the study of pre-Quaternary paleoclimatology has expanded greatly. A wide variety of methods have been developed to study pre-Quaternary climates, but until now, no single text has sought to synthe...
1998 Taal: Engels zie alle details...

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1998 Uitgever: Columbia University Press 338 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0231102070 ISBN-13: 9780231102070