Patterns and Mechanisms of Climate, Paleoclimate and Paleoenvironmental Changes from Low-Latitude Regions pp 3-6 | Cite as
Fifty Years of Paleoceanography: Major Achievements in Our Understanding of Past and Future Climate Change—Some Memories and Hearsay
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Paleoceanography quickly evolved into the first branch of historic geosciences that developed and employed strictly quantitative proxy data and a quantitative age scale to trace past ocean scenarios per analogy to the parameters used to study the modern ocean and to feed model simulations of modern, past, and future ocean scenarios. The present article outlined some milestones and ‘heroes’ that helped to promote the amazing evolution of this novel field of earth sciences.
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History of science Major advances in paleoceanography Quantitative tracers of ocean water masses Major scientific pacemakers Climatic change QuaternaryReferences
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