Antarctic Climate Evolution

Edited by
  • Fabio Florindo, Instituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Rome, Italy
  • Martin Siegert, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

Audience
The book is relevant to marine geologists, geophysicists, geochemists, atmospheric physicists, climatologists, glaciologists and students of Earth history.

Hardbound, 606 Pages

Published: October 2008

Imprint: Elsevier

ISBN: 978-0-444-52847-6

Contents

  • Introduction (Siegert and Florindo); The International Polar Years: A history of Developments in Antarctic Climate Evolution (Florindo, Meloni and Siegert); A History of Antarctic Cenozoic Glaciation - View from the Margin (Barrett); Circulation and Water Masses of the Southern Ocean: A Review (Carter et al); Cenozoic Climate History from Seismic Reflection and Drilling Studies on the Antarctic Continental Margin (Cooper et al); Numerical Modelling of the Antarctic Ice Sheet (Siegert); The Antarctic Continent in Gondwanaland: A Tectonic Review and Potential Research Targets for Future Investigations (Talarico and Kleinschmidt); From Greenhouse to Icehouse -The Eocene/Oligocene in Antarctica (Francis et al); The Oligocene-Miocene Boundary - Antarctic Climate Response to Orbital Forcing (Wilson et al); Middle Miocene to Pliocene History of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean (Haywood et al); Late Pliocene-Pleistocene Antarctic Climate Variability at Orbital and Suborbital Scale: Ice Sheet, Ocean and Atmospheric Interactions (Naish et al); Antarctica at the Last Glacial Maximum, Deglaciation and the Holocene (Wright et al); Concluding Remarks: Recent Changes in Antarctica and Future Research (Florindo and Siegert)

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