Cenozoic plants and climates of the Arctic /
Fifty million years ago, the Arctic Ocean was a warm sea, bounded by lush vegetation of the warm-temperate shores of Scandinavia, Siberia, Alaska and the Northwest Territories. Wind and storms were rare because Atlantic weather systems had not developed but, as today, polar day length added a hostil...
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| Format: | Conference Proceeding eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; New York :
Springer-Verlag,
[1994]
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| Series: | NATO ASI series. Global environmental change ;
vol. 27. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Fifty million years ago, the Arctic Ocean was a warm sea, bounded by lush vegetation of the warm-temperate shores of Scandinavia, Siberia, Alaska and the Northwest Territories. Wind and storms were rare because Atlantic weather systems had not developed but, as today, polar day length added a hostile element to this otherwise tranquil climate. With the aid of scientists from all the countries close to the Arctic Circle, this book describes the palaeontology, the statistical analysis of vegetational features, comparisons with atmospheric, marine, and geological features and some of the first models of plant migration developed from newly constructed databases. |
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| Item Description: | "Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Reconstruction of North Atlantic Climate Change Using Extinct Plant Data, held in London, UK, November 11-16, 1993"--Title page verso. Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 401 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9783642793783 (electronic bk.) 3642793789 (electronic bk.) |