Overview
- Leading research on documenting global climatic and environmental changes using mid-and low-latitude ice core records; historically, presently and in the future
- Useful 'how-to' methods section for current researchers and students
- Highlights the research done on polar ice cores, at high altitudes on glaciers ranging from China and Tibet to South American and Africa
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Developments in Paleoenvironmental Research (DPER, volume 9)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Climate and Environmental Change Record over the Last 200 Years
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The Climate and Environmental Change Record Over the Last 200 – 500 Years
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Back Matter
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About this book
Glaciers provide an unparalleled tool for studying global environmental change. This book is the first of its kind concentrating on the paleoenvironmental record archived in mid- and low-latitude glaciers. By concentrating mainly on the last 500 years of these records, we can now see that laws enacted to protect our environment in Europe and North America are providing positive results. Documenting global mid- and low-latitude paleoenvironmental records in glaciers, this volume forms a timely and essential complement to the wealth of literature on polar and Greenland ice sheet records.
This text is directed towards undergraduate and graduate university audiences and forms an ideal supplement in courses dealing with climate and global environmental change, glaciology, and natural resources management. It is also suitable in helping teach application of innovative analytical and interpretive methods and would be an excellent example of the rapidly emerging discipline of "Forensic Earth Science".
Reviews
From the reviews of the first edition:
"This is the first book devoted entirely to records preserved in mid- and low-latitude glaciers … . The collection of papers contained in this book represents some of the leading research and development in this field. It is presented in a readable book format of coherent chapters, with useful sidebar information widening the audience from simply those working in the field to students or researchers wishing to obtain background knowledge in the subject." (Elizabeth Ruth Thomas, Journal of Paleolimnology, Vol. 36, 2006)
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Earth Paleoenvironments: Records Preserved in Mid- and Low-Latitude Glaciers
Editors: L. DeWayne Cecil, Jaromy R. Green, Lonnie G. Thompson
Series Title: Developments in Paleoenvironmental Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-2146-1
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2004
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-2145-9Published: 06 July 2004
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-6598-8Published: 28 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-2146-6Published: 11 April 2006
Series ISSN: 1571-5299
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1672
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXII, 250
Topics: Geology, Climate Change, Paleontology, Earth Sciences, general