Climatic Change : Evidence, Causes, and Effects / Harlow Shapley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Barghoorn, Elso S.

Bell, Barbara.

Bhatnagar, P. L.

Brouwer, Dirk.

Colbert, Edwin H.

Conover, John H.

Conrad, Victor.

Coon, Carleton S.

Deevey, Jr., Edward S.

Flint, Richard Foster.

Hack, John T.

Krook, Max.

Kulp, J. Laurence.

Menzel, Donald H.

Nikiforoff, C. C.

Schulman, Edmund.

Sears, Paul B.

Shapley, Harlow, editor.

Shapley, Harlow.

Wexler, H.

Willett, Hurd C.

Woerkom, A. J. J. van.

Wolbach, John.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climatologia.

Climatology.

Geowissenschaften.

Klimaatveranderingen.

Local Subjects:

Climatology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (330 p.): Zahlr. Abb.

Edition:

5th printing 1970. Reprint 2014

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Frontmatter

PREFACE

CONTENTS

1. ON CLIMATE AND LIFE / Shapley, Harlow

2. CLIMATE AND RACE / Coon, Carleton S.

3. CLIMATE AND CIVILIZATION / Sears, Paul B.

4. ATMOSPHERIC AND OCEANIC CIRCULATION AS FACTORS IN GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CHANGES OF CLIMATE / Willett, Hurd C.

5. RADIATION BALANCE OF THE EARTH AS A FACTOR IN CLIMATIC CHANGE / Wexler, H.

6. THE INSUFFICIENCY OF GEOGRAPHICAL CAUSES OF CLIMATIC CHANGE / Wolbach, John

7. ON THE CAUSES OF THE ICE AGES / Menzel, Donald H.

8. SOLAR VARIATION AS AN EXPLANATION OF CLIMATE CHANGE / Bell, Barbara

9. INTERNAL CONSTITUTION OF THE SUN AND CLIMATIC CHANGES / Bhatnagar, P. L.

10. INTERSTELLAR MATTER AND THE SOLAR CONSTANT / Krook, Max

11. THE ASTRONOMICAL THEORY OF CLIMATE CHANGES / van Woerkom, A.J.J.

12. THE POLAR MOTION AND CHANGES IN THE EARTH'S ORBIT / Brouwer, Dirk

13. EVIDENCE FROM GLACIAL GEOLOGY AS TO CLIMATIC VARIATIONS / Flint, Richard Foster

14. GEOLOGIC EVIDENCE OF LATE PLEISTOCENE CLIMATES / Hack, John T.

15. PEDOGENIC CRITERIA OF CLIMATIC CHANGES / Nikiforoff, C. C.

16. CLIMATIC CHANGES AND RADIOISOTOPE DATING / Kulp, J. Laurence

17. TREE-RING EVIDENCE FOR CLIMATIC CHANGES / Schulman, Edmund

20. EVIDENCE OF CLIMATIC CHANGE IN THE GEOLOGIC RECORD OF PLANT LIFE / Barghoorn, Elso S.

21. THE RECORD OF CLIMATIC CHANGES AS REVEALED BY VERTEBRATE PALEOECOLOGY / Colbert, Edwin H.

22. PALEOLIMNOLOGY AND CLIMATE / Deevey, Edward S.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

0-674-36716-2

OCLC:

1024032577