Paleoclimatology : reconstructing climates of the quaternary

Bradley, Raymond S. 1948- (author.).

Record details

ISBN: 9780123869135
ISBN: 0123869137
Physical Description: print
xx, 675 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Edition: Third edition.
Publisher: Kidlington, Oxford : Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier, [2015]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 559-665) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction -- Sources of Paleoclimatic Information -- Levels of Paleoclimatic Analysis -- Modeling in Paleoclimatic Research -- Nature of Climate and Climatic Variation -- Climate System -- Feedback Mechanisms -- Energy Balance of the Earth and Its Atmosphere -- Timescales of Climatic Variation -- Variations of the Earth's Orbital Parameters -- Solar Forcing -- Volcanic Forcing -- Introduction and Overview -- Radioisotopic Methods -- Radiocarbon Dating -- Potassium-Argon Dating (40K/40Ar) -- Uranium-Series Dating -- Luminescence Dating: Principles and Applications -- Surface Exposure Dating -- Fission-Track Dating -- Paleomagnetism -- Earth's Magnetic Field -- Magnetization of Rocks and Sediments -- Paleomagnetic Timescale -- Geomagnetic Excursions -- Relative Paleointensity Variations -- Secular Variations of the Earth's Magnetic Field -- Dating Methods Involving Chemical Changes -- Amino Acid Dating -- Obsidian Hydration Dating -- Tephrochronology -- Biological Dating Methods -- Lichenometry -- Dendrochronology -- Introduction -- Stable Isotope Analysis -- Stable Isotopes in Water: Measurement and Standardization -- Oxygen-18 Concentration in Atmospheric Precipitation -- Factors Affecting the Stable Isotope Record in Ice Cores -- Deuterium Excess -- Dating Ice Cores -- Radioisotopic Methods -- Seasonal Variations and Episodic Events -- Theoretical Models -- Chronostratigraphic Correlations -- Paleoclimatic Reconstruction from Ice Cores -- Ice-Core Records from Greenland -- Ice-Core Records from Antarctica -- Past Atmospheric Composition from Polar Ice Cores -- Greenhouse Gas Records in Ice Cores -- Ice-Core Records from Low Latitudes -- Introduction -- Paleoclimatic Information from Biological Material in Ocean Cores -- Oxygen Isotope Studies of Calcareous Marine Fauna -- Isotopic Composition of the Oceans -- Oxygen Isotope Stratigraphy -- Orbital Tuning -- Orbital Forcing: Evidence from the Marine Record -- Sea Level Changes and ?18O -- Paleotemperatures from Relative Abundance Studies -- Paleotemperature Reconstruction from Sediment Geochemistry -- Paleotemperatures from Alkenones -- Paleotemperatures from TEX86 and Long-Chain Diols -- IP25 and Related Sea Ice Proxies -- Paleotemperatures from Mg/Ca Ratios -- Oceanographic Conditions at the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) -- Paleoclimatic Information from Inorganic Material in Marine Sediments -- Thermohaline Circulation of the Oceans -- Tracers in the Ocean -- Changes in Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide: The Role of the Oceans -- Abrupt Climate Changes -- Heinrich Events -- Chronology of Loess-Paleosol Sequences -- Paleoclimatic Significance of Loess-Paleosol Sequences -- Isotopic Variations in Speleothems -- Tropical and Subtropical Paleoclimate Variability from Speleothems -- Speleothems and Glacial Terminations -- Millennial to Centennial Scale Changes -- Late Glacial and Holocene Records -- Stalagmite Records of the Last Two Millennia -- Paleoclimatic Information from Periods of Speleothem Growth -- Speleothems as Indicators of Sea-Level Variations --