The story of Earth's climate in 25 discoveries : how scientists discovered the connections between climate and life
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The story of Earth's climate in 25 discoveries : how scientists discovered the connections between climate and life
Columbia University Press, [2023]
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Summary:""New tools have emerged to allow us to precisely describe the atmospheric conditions, the earth's temperature and climate, and how plants and animals interacted with these over four billion years of earth history. Not only have geoscientists conducted an enormous amount of new research on atmospheric evolution and climate change, but the importance of the intimate connection between climate and life has become much better understood and ppreciated. The idea for this book came from Don's teaching a course called "Blue Planet" for a college class of both geology majors and non-majors. There are several textbooks out there for this market, but they are much too detailed and technical for the average undergraduate, especially the undergraduate who is not a geology major. By teaching this course for a general audience of undergraduate non-science majors, Don has learned how to tell the incredible story of earth's climatic evolution, and the amazing interactions between climate and life that make the earth
収録内容
- Rare earth
- In the beginning
- Moonstruck?
- Faint young sun
- The oceans form
- Gasp : oxygen in the atmosphere
- Planet of the scum
- Snowball earth
- Plankton power
- Greenhouse of the trilobites
- Mass extinctions : the ordovician events
- The Devonian crises
- The first forests
- The Pangean icehouse
- The "great dying"
- From icehouse to greenhouse : the triassic and jurassic
- Greenhouse of the dinosaurs
- Death of the dinosaurs : the KGp extinctions
- Return of the greenhouse : the paleocene-eocene thermal maximum
- From greenhouse to icehouse : the eocene-oligocene transition
- Savannas of Nebraska
- Ice planet : the pleistocene ice ages
- The death of the megamammals
- The holocene : climate and human civilization
- The future greenhouse planet
