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The Story of Earth's Climate in 25 Discoveries : How Scientists Found the Connections Between Climate and Life
Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, 2024Description: 1 Online-Ressource (481 p.)ISBN:- 9780231555135
- 023155513X
- 551.609 23/eng/20231016
- QC903
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Summary: In this lively and entertaining book, Donald R. Prothero explores the astonishing connections between climate and life through the ages, telling the remarkable stories of the scientists who made crucial discoveriesPPN: PPN: 1907958711Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-4-NLEBK | BSZ-4-NLEBK-KAUB
Intro -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Rare Earth -- 2. In the Beginning -- 3. Moonstruck -- 4. Faint Young Sun -- 5. The Oceans Form -- 6. GASP: Oxygen in the Atmosphere -- 7. Planet of the Scum -- 8. Snowball Earth -- 9. Plankton Power -- 10. Greenhouse of the Trilobites -- 11. Mass Extinctions: The Ordovician Event -- 12. The Devonian Crises -- 13. The First Forests -- 14. The Pangean Icehouse -- 15. The "Great Dying" -- 16. From Icehouse to Greenhouse: The Triassic and Jurassic -- 17. Greenhouse of the Dinosaurs
18. The Death of the Dinosaurs: The End-Cretaceous Extinctions -- 19. Return of the Greenhouse: The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum -- 20. From Greenhouse to Icehouse: The Eocene-Oligocene Transition -- 21. American Serengeti -- 22. Ice Planet: The Pleistocene Ice Ages -- 23. The Death of the Megamammals -- 24. The Holocene: Climate and Human Civilization -- 25. The Future Greenhouse Planet -- Index
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