Atlas of Mesozoic and Cenozoic Coastlines

Atlas of Mesozoic and Cenozoic Coastlines
Title Atlas of Mesozoic and Cenozoic Coastlines PDF eBook
Author A. G. Smith
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 116
Release 2004-03-25
Genre Science
ISBN 9780521602877

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The positions of global paleoshorelines through the Mesozoic and Cenozoic are presented within this atlas. This is a unique global compilation that presents the first attempt at delineating global shorelines at stage level. The information sources are set out in a bibliography numbering more than 2000 primary paleographic references.

Earth's Climate Evolution

Earth's Climate Evolution
Title Earth's Climate Evolution PDF eBook
Author C. P. Summerhayes
Publisher John Wiley & Sons
Pages 416
Release 2015-07-13
Genre Science
ISBN 1118897382

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To understand climate change today, we first need to know how Earth’s climate changed over the past 450 million years. Finding answers depends upon contributions from a wide range of sciences, not just the rock record uncovered by geologists. In Earth’s Climate Evolution, Colin Summerhayes analyzes reports and records of past climate change dating back to the late 18th century to uncover key patterns in the climate system. The book will transform debate and set the agenda for the next generation of thought about future climate change. The book takes a unique approach to the subject providing a description of the greenhouse and icehouse worlds of the past 450 million years since land plants emerged, ignoring major earlier glaciations like that of Snowball Earth, which occurred around 600 million years ago in a world free of land plants. It describes the evolution of thinking in palaeoclimatology and introduces the main players in the field and how their ideas were received and, in many cases, subsequently modified. It records the arguments and discussions about the merits of different ideas along the way. It also includes several notes made from the author’s own personal involvement in palaeoclimatological and palaeoceanographic studies, and from his experience of working alongside several of the major players in these fields in recent years. This book will be an invaluable reference for both undergraduate and postgraduate students taking courses in related fields and will also be of interest to historians of science and/or geology, climatology and oceanography. It should also be of interest to the wider scientific and engineering community, high school science students, policy makers, and environmental NGOs. Reviews: "Outstanding in its presentation of the facts and a good read in the way that it intersperses the climate story with the author's own experiences. [This book] puts the climate story into a compelling geological history." -Dr. James Baker "The book is written in very clear and concise prose, [and takes] original, enlightening, and engaging approach to talking about 'ideas' from the perspective of the scientists who promoted them." -Professor Christopher R. Scotese "A thrilling ride through continental drift and its consequences." - Professor Gerald R. North "Written in a style and language which can be easily understood by laymen as well as scientists." - Professor Dr Jörn Thiede "What makes this book particularly distinctive is how well it builds in the narrative of change in ideas over time." - Holocene book reviews, May 2016 "This is a fascinating book and the author’s biographical approach gives it great human appeal." - E Adlard

Evolution of the Cretaceous Ocean-climate System

Evolution of the Cretaceous Ocean-climate System
Title Evolution of the Cretaceous Ocean-climate System PDF eBook
Author Enriqueta Barrera
Publisher Geological Society of America
Pages 458
Release 1999-01-01
Genre Science
ISBN 9780813723327

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U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin

U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin
Title U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 610
Release 1983
Genre Geology
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Geologic Studies in Alaska by the U.S. Geological Survey, 1994

Geologic Studies in Alaska by the U.S. Geological Survey, 1994
Title Geologic Studies in Alaska by the U.S. Geological Survey, 1994 PDF eBook
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Pages 230
Release 1996
Genre Geology
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Geologic Studies in Alaska by the U.S. Geological Survey During ...

Geologic Studies in Alaska by the U.S. Geological Survey During ...
Title Geologic Studies in Alaska by the U.S. Geological Survey During ... PDF eBook
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Pages 230
Release 1996
Genre Geology
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Lowly Origin

Lowly Origin
Title Lowly Origin PDF eBook
Author Jonathan Kingdon
Publisher Princeton University Press
Pages 417
Release 2021-01-12
Genre Science
ISBN 0691223440

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Our ability to walk on two legs is not only a characteristic human trait but one of the things that made us human in the first place. Once our ancestors could walk on two legs, they began to do many of the things that apes cannot do: cross wide open spaces, manipulate complex tools, communicate with new signal systems, and light fires. Titled after the last two words of Darwin's Descent of Man and written by a leading scholar of human evolution, Lowly Origin is the first book to explain the sources and consequences of bipedalism to a broad audience. Along the way, it accounts for recent fossil discoveries that show us a still incomplete but much bushier family tree than most of us learned about in school. Jonathan Kingdon uses the very latest findings from ecology, biogeography, and paleontology to build a new and up-to-date account of how four-legged apes became two-legged hominins. He describes what it took to get up onto two legs as well as the protracted consequences of that step--some of which led straight to modern humans and others to very different bipeds. This allows him to make sense of recently unearthed evidence suggesting that no fewer than twenty species of humans and hominins have lived and become extinct. Following the evolution of two-legged creatures from our earliest lowly forebears to the present, Kingdon concludes with future options for the last surviving biped. A major new narrative of human evolution, Lowly Origin is the best available account of what it meant--and what it means--to walk on two feet.