Paleoclimates: Understanding Climate Change Past and Present

by Thomas M. Cronin

Book Overview

The field of paleoclimatology relies on physical, chemical, and biological proxies of past climate changes that have been preserved in natural archives such as glacial ice, tree rings, sediments, corals, and speleothems. Paleoclimate archives obtained through field investigations, ocean sediment coring expeditions, ice sheet coring programs, and other projects allow scientists to reconstruct climate change over much of earth's history.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231144946
• ISBN13: 9780231144940
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 4.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 8.6" x 11.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher