06108nam 2200589 450 991078904010332120230803064135.00-12-386995-1(CKB)3710000000085694(MH)014014282-7(SSID)ssj0001107620(PQKBManifestationID)12509419(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001107620(PQKBWorkID)11081993(PQKB)10752354(Au-PeEL)EBL5754525(OCoLC)870655292(MiAaPQ)EBC5754525(PPN)199689687(EXLCZ)99371000000008569420190515d2015 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierPaleoclimatology reconstructing climates of the quaternary /by Raymond S. BradleyThird edition.Amsterdam :Elsevier,[2015]©20151 online resource (xx, 675 pages )illustrations, maps (some color) ;Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-12-386913-7 Includes bibliographical references (pages 559-665) and index.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 ChangesAmino 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 RecordSpeleothems 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 AnalysisPollen 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 HemispherePaleoclimatologyQuaternaryGeology, StratigraphicQuaternaryPaleoclimatologyGeology, Stratigraphic551.609/01Bradley Raymond S.1948-275063MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910789040103321Paleoclimatology42046UNINAThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress