Climatic Change : : Evidence, Causes, and Effects / / ed. by Harlow Shapley.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: Complete eBook Package
• MitwirkendeR: Barghoorn, Elso S.,; Bell, Barbara,; Bhatnagar, P. L.,; Brouwer, Dirk,; Colbert, Edwin H.,; Conover, John H.,; Conrad, Victor,; Coon, Carleton S.,; Deevey, Edward S.,; Deevey, Jr., Edward S.,; Flint, Richard Foster,; Hack, John T.,; Krook, Max,; Kulp, J. Laurence,; Menzel, Donald H.,; Nikiforoff, C. C.,; Schulman, Edmund,; Sears, Paul B.,; Shapley, Harlow,; Wexler, H.,; Willett, Hurd C.,; Woerkom, A. J. J. van,; Wolbach, John,; van Woerkom, A.J.J.,
• HerausgeberIn: Shapley, Harlow,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]; ©1953
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: 5th printing 1970. Reprint 2014
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (318 p.) :; Zahlr. Abb.

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• 1. ON CLIMATE AND LIFE
• 2. CLIMATE AND RACE
• 3. CLIMATE AND CIVILIZATION
• 4. ATMOSPHERIC AND OCEANIC CIRCULATION AS FACTORS IN GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CHANGES OF CLIMATE
• 5. RADIATION BALANCE OF THE EARTH AS A FACTOR IN CLIMATIC CHANGE
• 6. THE INSUFFICIENCY OF GEOGRAPHICAL CAUSES OF CLIMATIC CHANGE
• 7. ON THE CAUSES OF THE ICE AGES
• 8. SOLAR VARIATION AS AN EXPLANATION OF CLIMATE CHANGE
• 9. INTERNAL CONSTITUTION OF THE SUN AND CLIMATIC CHANGES
• 10. INTERSTELLAR MATTER AND THE SOLAR CONSTANT
• 11. THE ASTRONOMICAL THEORY OF CLIMATE CHANGES
• 12. THE POLAR MOTION AND CHANGES IN THE EARTH'S ORBIT
• 13. EVIDENCE FROM GLACIAL GEOLOGY AS TO CLIMATIC VARIATIONS
• 14. GEOLOGIC EVIDENCE OF LATE PLEISTOCENE CLIMATES
• 15. PEDOGENIC CRITERIA OF CLIMATIC CHANGES
• 16. CLIMATIC CHANGES AND RADIOISOTOPE DATING
• 17. TREE-RING EVIDENCE FOR CLIMATIC CHANGES
• 18. CLIMATIC CHANGES AS INTERPRETED FROM METEOROLOGICAL DATA
• 19. CLIMATIC CHANGES OR CYCLES?
• 20. EVIDENCE OF CLIMATIC CHANGE IN THE GEOLOGIC RECORD OF PLANT LIFE
• 21. THE RECORD OF CLIMATIC CHANGES AS REVEALED BY VERTEBRATE PALEOECOLOGY
• 22. PALEOLIMNOLOGY AND CLIMATE
• PREFACE