| Description |
1 online resource (xxvi, 256 pages) : illustrations |
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| Note |
First paperback printing 2006. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-248) and index. |
| Contents |
Ice, ice ages, and our planet's climate history -- Fire, water, and God -- Glaciers and fossil fish -- The evidence -- Searching for the cause of ice ages -- Defrosting earth -- The ice age cycles -- Our planet's icy past -- Coring for the details -- Ice ages, climate, and evolution -- The last millennium -- Ice ages and the future. |
| Summary |
In this engrossing and accessible book, Doug Macdougall explores the causes and effects of ice ages that have gripped our planet throughout its history, from the earliest known glaciation-nearly three billion years ago-to the present. Following the development of scientific ideas about these dramatic events, Macdougall traces the lives of many of the brilliant and intriguing characters who have contributed to the evolving understanding of how ice ages come about. As it explains how the great Pleistocene Ice Age has shaped the earth's landscape and influenced the course of human evolution, F. |
| Subject |
Glacial epoch.
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Paleoclimatology.
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Global environmental change.
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SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Sedimentology & Stratigraphy.
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SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Geology.
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Glacial epoch. (OCoLC)fst00942963
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Global environmental change. (OCoLC)fst00943478
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Paleoclimatology. (OCoLC)fst01051364
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IJstijden.
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Geology.
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Earth & Environmental Sciences.
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Stratigraphy.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Macdougall, Douglas. Frozen Earth : The Once and Future Story of Ice Ages. Berkerley : University of California Press, ©2013 9780520275928 |
| ISBN |
9780520954946 (electronic book) |
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0520954947 (electronic book) |
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1299051588 (electronic book) |
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9781299051584 (electronic book) |
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