Global palaeoclimate of the late Cenozoic /

This is a detailed description of the history and chronology of global climate based on event-signal stratigraphy. The history of global climate is described for the last fifty million years with the description for the last one million years in detail. Climatostratigraphic sequences of twelve key r...

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Main Author: Zubakov, Vsevolod Alekseevich
Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Other Authors: Borzenkova, I. I. (Irena Ivanovna)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:Translation of: Paleoklimaty pozdnego kaĭnozoi︠a︡.
Published: Amsterdam ; New York : Elsevier, 1990.
Series:Developments in palaeontology and stratigraphy ; 12.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:This is a detailed description of the history and chronology of global climate based on event-signal stratigraphy. The history of global climate is described for the last fifty million years with the description for the last one million years in detail. Climatostratigraphic sequences of twelve key regions are taken as a basis, eight of them situated in the USSR territories. Chronology of climatic events of the Pleistocene, Pliocene and Miocene is developed based on palaeomagnetic and radiometric data. The authors' version of its correlation with oxygene-isotope scales of deep-sea sediments is given. Theoretical problems of climatic stratigraphy and palaeoclimatology are discussed, in particular, the causes of climatic change. The Northern Hemisphere palaeoclimatic reconstructions are made for the Holocene, Eemian and Pliocene temperature optima, considered as possible palaeoanalogues of climate of the 21st Century. The book is intended primarily for a wide circle of scientific workers, palaeoclimatologists and palaeogeographers, but will also interest geologists, biologists, palaeomagnetologists and archaeologists.
Item Description:Translation of: Paleoklimaty pozdnego kaĭnozoi︠a︡.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xi, 456 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-453).
ISBN:9780444873095
0444873090
9780080868530
0080868533