Chapter 1. Introduction * Importance of palaeoclimate studies * The nature of the multidisciplinary approach * Focus on geological evidence, rather than computer models * How the book is structured, use etc. Chapter 2. Tools for palaeoclimate study How palaeoclimatologists detect past climate change on land and in the sea. * On land - Fossil plants (tree rings, physiognomic analysis of angiosperm leaf characters, Nearest Living Relative, carbon isotopes) Climate-sensitive rocks: Palaeosols - isotopic studies, coals - climate significance, desert sediments etc Animals - distributions, thermal tolerances etc * In the sea - Oxygen isotopes Clay minerals Fossil distribution and thermal tolerances etc Marine sediments e.g. evaporites, black shales etc Chapter 3 Overview of global climates through geological time ...
- ISBN10 1405108967
- ISBN13 9781405108966
- Publish Date 27 April 2003
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Imprint Blackwell Publishing Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 320
- Language English