Titre : | Les climats à travers les temps géologiques |
Autre titre: | Climates throughout geologic time |
Auteurs : | Lawrence A. FRAKES |
Type de document : | Livre |
Editeur : | AMSTERDAM : ELSEVIER, 1979 |
ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-0-444-41729-9 |
Format : | 301 |
Langues: | Anglais |
Concepts : |
GEOLOGIE
CLIMAT PALEOGEOGRAPHIE PALEOCLIMATOLOGIE CHANGEMENT CLIMATIQUE SEDIMENTOLOGIE ERE GLACIAIRE GLACIATION PRECAMBRIEN ERE PRIMAIRE ERE SECONDAIRE ERE TERTIAIRE |
Résumé : | The first modern book on paleoclimates, this is a concise, integrated history of the climatic conditions of the earth throughout all geologic time. Basing his interpretations on global reconstructions from rock magnetism and sea-floor spreading data, and using sedimentological, biological and chemical indicators of climate, Dr.Frakes documents and discusses the evolution of the earth's climates on a world scale. The Deep Sea Driling Project has yielded a wast amount of new information on oceanic climates and the author has made use of this in his detailed reconstructions of the climatic changes of the Mesozoic and Cenozoic eras. The main part of the book is concerned with deciphering the thermal history of the earth through comparisons with ist present state. This analysis reveals a number of anomalies which are examined in the book, the two most outstanding being the late Precambrian, with ist wide spread low-attitude glaciation, and the Mesozoic, when the ocean-atmosphere system retained an extraordinary am ount of solar energy. Sommaire : elements of climate and paleoclimate ; primitive and early climates ; the late precambrian glaciations ; non-glacial paleozoic ;glaciations of the paleozoic ; the mesozoic - warmth and aridity ; the paleogene deterioration ; the neogene - wide swings ans cyclicity ; evolution and genesis of global climates. |
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