Paleoclimatology : reconstructing climates of the quaternary / / by Raymond S. Bradley

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910789040103321
• Autore: Bradley Raymond S. <1948->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam : , : Elsevier, , [2015]; ©2015
• ISBN: 0-12-386995-1
• Edizione: [Third edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xx, 675 pages ) : illustrations, maps (some color)
• Disciplina: 551.609/01
• Soggetti: Paleoclimatology - Quaternary; Geology, Stratigraphic - Quaternary
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 559-665) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Machine generated contents note: Introduction -- Sources of Paleoclimatic Information -- Levels of Paleoclimatic Analysis -- Modeling in Paleoclimatic Research -- The Nature of Climate and Climatic Variation -- The Climate System -- Feedback Mechanisms -- Energy Balance of the Earth and Its Atmosphere -- Timescales of Climatic Variation -- Variations of the Earth's Orbital Parameters -- Solar Forcing -- Volcanic Forcing -- Introduction and Overview -- Radioisotopic Methods -- Radiocarbon Dating -- Potassium-Argon Dating (40K/40Ar) -- Uranium-Series Dating -- Luminescence Dating: Principles and Applications -- Surface Exposure Dating -- Fission-Track Dating -- Paleomagnetism -- The Earth's Magnetic Field -- Magnetization of Rocks and Sediments -- The Paleomagnetic Timescale -- Geomagnetic Excursions -- Relative Paleointensity Variations -- Secular Variations of the Earth's Magnetic Field -- Dating Methods Involving Chemical Changes; Amino Acid Dating -- Obsidian Hydration Dating -- Tephrochronology -- Biological Dating Methods -- Lichenometry -- Dendrochronology -- Introduction -- Stable Isotope Analysis -- Stable Isotopes in Water: Measurement and Standardization -- Oxygen-18 Concentration in Atmospheric Precipitation -- Factors Affecting the Stable Isotope Record in Ice Cores -- Deuterium Excess -- Dating Ice Cores -- Radioisotopic Methods -- Seasonal Variations and Episodic Events -- ; Theoretical Models -- Chronostratigraphic Correlations -- Paleoclimatic Reconstruction from Ice Cores -- Ice-Core Records from Greenland -- Ice-Core Records from Antarctica -- Past Atmospheric Composition from Polar Ice Cores -- Greenhouse Gas Records in Ice Cores -- Ice-Core Records from Low Latitudes -- Introduction -- Paleoclimatic Information from Biological Material in Ocean Cores -- Oxygen Isotope Studies of Calcareous Marine Fauna -- Isotopic Composition of the Oceans -- Oxygen Isotope Stratigraphy -- Orbital Tuning -- Orbital Forcing: Evidence from the Marine Record; Speleothems as Indicators of Sea-Level Variations -- Sedimentology and Inorganic Geochemistry -- Varves -- Pollen, Macrofossils, and Phytoliths -- Ostracods -- Diatoms -- Stable Isotopes -- Organic Biomarkers -- Introduction -- Periglacial Features -- Snowlines and Glaciation Thresholds -- The Climatic and Paleoclimatic Interpretation of Snowlines and ELAs -- The Age of Former Snowlines -- Mountain Glacier Fluctuations -- Evidence of Glacier Fluctuations -- The Record of Glacier Front Positions -- Lake-level Fluctuations -- Hydrologic Balance Models -- Hydrologic-Energy Balance Models -- Regional Patterns of Lake-Level Fluctuations -- Introduction -- Insects -- Paleoclimatic Reconstructions Based on Fossil Coleoptera -- Paleoclimatic Reconstruction Based on Aquatic Insects -- Former Vegetation Distribution from Plant Macrofossils -- Arctic Tree Line Fluctuations -- Alpine Tree Line Fluctuations -- Lower Tree Line Fluctuations and Rodent Middens -- Peat -- Introduction -- The Basis of Pollen Analysis; Pollen Grain Characteristics -- Pollen Productivity and Dispersal: The Pollen Rain -- Sources of Fossil Pollen -- Preparation of the Samples -- Pollen Analysis of a Site: The Pollen Diagram -- Zonation of the Pollen Diagram -- Pollen Rain as a Representation of Vegetation Composition and Climate -- Maps of Modern Pollen Data -- Mapping Vegetation Change: Isopolls and Isochrones -- How Rapidly Does Vegetation Respond to Changes in Climate? -- Quantitative Paleoclimatic Reconstructions Based on Pollen Analysis -- Paleoclimatic Reconstruction from Long Quaternary Pollen Records -- Europe -- Sabana de Bogota, Colombia -- Central American Lowlands -- Amazonia -- Equatorial and Sub-Saharan Africa -- Northeastern Siberia -- Introduction -- Fundamentals of Dendroclimatology -- Sample Selection -- Cross Dating -- Standardization of Ring-Width Data -- Divergence -- Calibration of Tree-Ring Data -- Verification of Climatic Reconstructions -- Dendroclimatic Reconstructions -- Reconstructions of Temperatures over the Northern Hemisphere