Climate Modes of the Phanerozoic

by Jane E. Francis, Lawrence A. Frakes, Jozef I Syktus, et al.

Book Overview

This book views the Earth's climate as a global system, by describing the evolution of climate throughout the past 600 million years, from the Cambrian to the Quaternary. Palaeoclimates are examined in terms of Cold and Warm modes--phases during which the Earth's climates were either relatively cool with ice forming in high latitudes or when high levels of CO2 led to greenhouse warmings and temperate floras and faunas inhabited polar regions. Evidence...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521366275
• ISBN13: 9780521366274
• Release Date: November 1992
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.7" x 9.6"