The extreme Proterozoic : geology, geochemistry, and climate / Gregory S. Jenkins ... [and others] editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jenkins, Gregory S.

Series:

Geophysical monograph 0065-8448 ; 146.

Geophysical monograph, 0065-8448 ; 146

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Paleoclimatology--Proterozoic.

Paleoclimatology.

Climatic extremes.

Glacial climates.

Physical Description:

viii, 229 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm.

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : American Geophysical Union, [2004]

Contents:

The Extreme Proterozoic: Geology, Geochemistry, and Climate

Introduction: The Proterozoic / Gregory S. Jenkins, Christopher McKay, Mark A. S. McMenamin 1

Observations of Extreme Proterozoic Conditions

Paleomagnetic Constraints on Neoproterozoic 'Snowball Earth' Continental Reconstructions / Joseph G. Meert, Trond. H. Torsvik 5

Geochemical Climate Proxies Applied to the Neoproterozoic Glacial Succession on the Yangtze Platform, South China / Nicole Dobrzinski, Heinrich Bahlburg, Harald Strauss, Qirui Zhang 13

Formerly-Aragonite Seafloor Fans from Neoproterozoic Strata, Death Valley and Southeastern Idaho, United States: Implications for "Cap Carbonate" Formation and Snowball Earth / Frank A. Corsetti, Nathaniel J. Lorentz, Sara B. Pruss 33

Modeling Extreme Proterozoic Conditions

Analysis of Carbon Cycle System During the Neoproterozoic: Implications for Snowball Earth Events / Eiichi Tajika 45

Secular Changes in the Importance of Neritic Carbonate Deposition as a Control on the Magnitude and Stability of Neoproterozoic Ice Ages / Andy Ridgwell, Martin Kennedy 55

A Review of Neoproterozoic Climate Modeling Studies / Gregory S. Jenkins 73

Global Tectonic Setting and Climate of the Late Neoproterozoic: A Climate-Geochemical Coupled Study / Yannick Donnadieu, Gilles Ramstein, Yves Godderis, Frederic Fluteau 79

Climate-Ice Sheet Simulations of Neoproterozoic Glaciation Before and After Collapse to Snowball Earth / David Pollard, James F. Kasting 91

Climate Dynamics in Deep Time: Modeling the "Snowball Bifurcation" and Assessing the Plausibility of its Occurrence / W. R. Peltier, L. Tarasov, G. Vettoretti, L. P. Solheim 107

Synthesis: Hypothesis and Processes That Explain Extreme Proterozoic Climate

Interpreting the Neoproterozoic Glacial Record: The Importance of Tectonics / Nicholas Eyles, Nicole Januszczak 125

Neoproterozoic Glaciation: Reconciling Low Paleolatitudes and the Geologic Record / George E. Williams, Phillip W. Schmidt 145

Earth's Earliest Extensive Glaciations: Tectonic Setting and Stratigraphic Context of Paleoproterozoic Glaciogenic Deposits / Grant M. Young 161

High Obliquity as an Alternative Hypothesis to Early and Late Proterozoic Extreme Climate Conditions / Gregory S. Jenkins 183

Thin Ice on the Snowball Earth / Christopher P. Mckay 193

Biological Aspects of Neoproterozoic Glaciation and its Implications for the Cambrian Explosion

Neoproterozoic Glaciations and the Fossil Record / Shuhia Xiao 199

Climate, Paleoecology and Abrupt Change During the Late Proterozoic: A Consideration of Causes and Effects / Mark A. S. McMenamin 215.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0875904114

OCLC:

56329844