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Climatic Change
Evidence, Causes, and Effects
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Edited by:
Harlow Shapley
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In collaboration with:
Harlow Shapley
, Carleton S. Coon , Paul B. Sears , Hurd C. Willett , H. Wexler , John Wolbach , Donald H. Menzel , Barbara Bell , P. L. Bhatnagar , Max Krook , A. J. J. van Woerkom , Dirk Brouwer , Richard Foster Flint , John T. Hack , C. C. Nikiforoff , J. Laurence Kulp , Edmund Schulman , John H. Conover , Victor Conrad , Elso S. Barghoorn , Edwin H. Colbert and Edward S. Deevey, Jr.
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English
Published/Copyright:
1953
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CONTENTS
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1. ON CLIMATE AND LIFE
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2. CLIMATE AND RACE
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3. CLIMATE AND CIVILIZATION
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4. ATMOSPHERIC AND OCEANIC CIRCULATION AS FACTORS IN GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CHANGES OF CLIMATE
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5. RADIATION BALANCE OF THE EARTH AS A FACTOR IN CLIMATIC CHANGE
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6. THE INSUFFICIENCY OF GEOGRAPHICAL CAUSES OF CLIMATIC CHANGE
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7. ON THE CAUSES OF THE ICE AGES
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8. SOLAR VARIATION AS AN EXPLANATION OF CLIMATE CHANGE
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9. INTERNAL CONSTITUTION OF THE SUN AND CLIMATIC CHANGES
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10. INTERSTELLAR MATTER AND THE SOLAR CONSTANT
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11. THE ASTRONOMICAL THEORY OF CLIMATE CHANGES
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12. THE POLAR MOTION AND CHANGES IN THE EARTH'S ORBIT
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13. EVIDENCE FROM GLACIAL GEOLOGY AS TO CLIMATIC VARIATIONS
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14. GEOLOGIC EVIDENCE OF LATE PLEISTOCENE CLIMATES
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15. PEDOGENIC CRITERIA OF CLIMATIC CHANGES
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16. CLIMATIC CHANGES AND RADIOISOTOPE DATING
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17. TREE-RING EVIDENCE FOR CLIMATIC CHANGES
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18. CLIMATIC CHANGES AS INTERPRETED FROM METEOROLOGICAL DATA
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19. CLIMATIC CHANGES OR CYCLES?
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20. EVIDENCE OF CLIMATIC CHANGE IN THE GEOLOGIC RECORD OF PLANT LIFE
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21. THE RECORD OF CLIMATIC CHANGES AS REVEALED BY VERTEBRATE PALEOECOLOGY
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22. PALEOLIMNOLOGY AND CLIMATE
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PREFACE
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October 1, 2013
eBook ISBN:
9780674367166
Hardcover published on:
February 5, 1953
Hardcover ISBN:
9780674367159
Edition:
5th printing 1970. Reprint 2014
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Front matter:
12
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318
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Zahlr. Abb.
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9780674367166
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9780674367159
Keywords for this book
Climatology.
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Professional and scholarly;
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