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Author / Creator:Goudie, Andrew
Edition:3rd ed.
Imprint:Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.
Description:xx, 329 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1356591
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ISBN:0198741669 : £30.00
0198741677 (pbk.) : £12.95
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-318) and index.

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505 2 0 |g 1.  |t Introduction.  |t The evolution of ideas.  |t Traditional techniques.  |t New chronological techniques.  |t Developments in stratigraphy.  |t Geomorphic and pedologic evidence for environmental change.  |t The era before the Pleistocene ice: the Cainozoic climatic decline --  |g 2.  |t The Chronology and Nature of the Pleistocene.  |t The length of the Pleistocene.  |t The divisions of the Pleistocene: the classic terrestrial story.  |t The Pleistocene record in the oceans.  |t The glacial history of the British Isles.  |t The changing extent of glaciers and ice-caps:.  |t America.  |t The British Isles.  |t Europe and Asia.  |t The southern continents.  |t Permafrost and its extent in the Pleistocene.  |t The formation of loess sheets.  |t The degree of climatic change in glacials and pluvials.  |t The vegetational conditions of the full glacials in Europe.  |t The glacial vegetation of North America.  |t The interstadials of the Last Glacial.  |t The nature of the interglacials.  |t Variations in the British and European interglacials.  |t Faunal and floral fluctuations --  |g 3.  |t Pleistocene Events in the Tropics and Subtropics.  |t Arid phases in the Pleistocene.  |t The fossil dunes of northern India.  |t The fossil dunes of Africa.  |t The fossil dunes of North and South America.  |t The fossil dunes of Australia.  |t Pluvial phases in the Pleistocene.  |t The American pluvial lakes.  |t The Aral - Caspian system.  |t The pluvial lakes of the Middle East.  |t The pluvial lakes of Africa.  |t The dates of the last great lacustral phase in low latitudes.  |t The glacial-pluvial problem.  |t Faunal and floral changes in the tropics.  |t African fish and changing African waters.  |t The general circulation of the atmosphere --  |g 4.  |t Environmental Change in Post-glacial Times.  |t A stable Holocene?  |t The transition from Late Glacial times.  |t Environmental change and cultural transition.  |t The great extinction problem of Late Glacial and Early Holocene times.  |t The vegetation and climatic conditions of Holocene Britain.  |t Man and the classic sequence of Holocene climatic change.  |t The North American Holocene sequence.  |t Post-glacial times in the Sahara and adjacent regions.  |t The post-glacial climatic optimum and neoglaciation.  |t The Little Optimum, AD 750-1300.  |t The last Little Ice Age (neoglaciation).  |t The Greenland settlements.  |t Medieval highland cultivation --  |g 5.  |t Environmental Changes During the Period of Meteorological Records.  |t Warming in the early twentieth century.  |t A cooling episode at mid-century.  |t The warming episode of the late twentieth century.  |t Precipitation changes during the period of instrumental record.  |t Changes in rainfall in Britain.  |t Rainfall changes in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in the low latitudes.  |t Changing rainfall patterns on desert margins.  |t River discharge fluctuations.  |t Glacial fluctuations in the twentieth century.  |t Changing lake levels.  |t Changing dust-storm frequencies.  |t Conclusion --  |g 6.  |t Sea-Level Changes of the Quaternary.  |t The importance of sea-level changes.  |t Eustatic factors.  |t Glacio-eustasy.  |t Orogenic eustasy.  |t Geoidal eustasy.  |t Isostasy.  |t Miscellaneous causes of local changes in sea-level.  |t The nature of pre-Holocene sea-levels.  |t The post-glacial rise in sea-level or Flandrian transgression.  |t Post-glacial sea-level changes in northern Europe: the combined effects of eustasy and isostasy.  |t Holocene sea-level movements in southern Britain.  |t Current rates of subsidence and uplift --  |g 7.  |t The Causes of Climatic Change.  |t Solar radiation hypotheses.  |t Atmospheric transparency hypotheses.  |t Climatic change and variations in terrestrial magnetism.  |t Earth geometry theories- the Croll - Milankovitch hypothesis.  |t Hypotheses involving changes in terrestrial geography.  |t Feedback (autovariation) hypotheses:.  |t Wilson's (1964) hypothesis.  |t The Plass hypothesis.  |t The Ewing-Donn hypothesis (1956, 1958).  |t Albedo-based hypotheses.  |t The human impact on climate. 
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