Springer Science.Business, 2004. - 1060 p.
The Encyclopedia of Paleoclimatology and Ancient Environments, a
companion volume to the recently-published Encyclopedia of World
Climatology, provides the reader with an entry point to the rapidly
expanding field of paleoclimatology. Highly interdisciplinary,
paleoclimatology integrates information from a broad array of
disciplines in the geosciences, spanning across stratigraphy,
geomorphology, glaciology, paleoecology, paleobotany, isotope
geochemistry, geochronology, and geophysics, among others. The
encyclopedia covers the entire span of the Earth's climate history
from the early Precambrian to the Little Ice Age, and also offers
an interplanetary comparison with the contrasting climates of Mars
and Venus in 230 informative articles written by over 200 well
known inteational experts.
Odekon M. Encyclopedia of paleoclimatology and ancient environments
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