Antarctic Glacial History and World Palaeoenvironments

Herausgeber: Bakker, E. M. Zinderen van

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book, based on the proceedings of third symposium held on 17th August 1977 during the Xth INQUA Congress at Birmingham, UK, focuses on the influence the Antarctic glaciation had on world palaeoenvironments.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 1978
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 574g
• ISBN-13: 9789061910275
• ISBN-10: 9061910277
• Artikelnr.: 25093346

Autorenporträt

E.M. Zinderen van Bakker (Edited by)

Inhaltsangabe

1. Comparison of Antarctic and Arctic climate and its relevance to climatic
evolution 2. Glacial history of New Zealand and the Ross Dependency,
Antarctica 3. Aspects of the early evolution of West Antarctic ice 4. Past
surges in the West Antarctic ice sheet and their climatological
significance 5. Cainozoic evolution of circumantarctic palaeoceanography 6.
A review of the Late Quaternary climatic history of Antarctic Seas 7.
Glacial development and temperature trends in the Antarctic and in South
America 8. Glacier fluctuations in South Georgia and comparison with other
island groups in the Scotia Sea 9. Aridification of the Namib Desert:
Evidence from oceanic cores 10. Late Cainozoic palaeoenvironments of
southern Africa 11. Late-Mesozoic and Tertiary palaeoenvironments of the
Sahara region 12. Evidence for Quaternary glaciation of Marion Island
(sub-Antarctic) and some implications 13. Glacial age aeolian events at
high and low latitudes: A Southern Hemisphere perspective