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1 online resource (517 pages) |
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Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 The Cretaceous world; 2.1 INTRODUCTION; 2.2 CRETACEOUS PLATE TECTONICS AND PALAEOGEOGRAPHY; 2.3 IGNEOUS ACTIVITY; 2.3.1 Continental flood basalts; 2.3.2 The mid Cretaceous superplume; 2.4 BOLIDE IMPACTS; 2.5 PALAEOCEANOGRAPHY; 2.5.1 Eustasy and the great transgressions; 2.5.2 Oceanic circulation; 2.5.3 Oceanic hiatuses and deep water circulation; 2.5.4 Global persistence of chalk facies; 2.5.5 Cretaceous upwelling and productivity events; 2.5.6 Carbonate platform drowning |
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2.6 CRETACEOUS CLIMATES AND CLIMATIC CHANGE2.6.1 Cretaceous polar ice?; 2.6.2 Boreal vs. Tethyan faunas; 2.6.3 Oxygen isotopes from marine carbonates and fossils; 2.6.4 Cretaceous arid and humid zones; 2.6.5 Supertethys and hot tropical oceans; 2.6.6 The Cretaceous carbon cycle and its relation to climate; 2.7 CONTROLS ON CRETACEOUS CLIMATE CHANGE; 2.7.1 Long-term controls: plate tectonics; 2.7.2 Cretaceous atmospheric carbon dioxide; 2.7.3 Short-term controls: Milankovitch band; 2.8 SUMMARY; Berriasian-Barremian transitional period; Aptian-Mid Campanian greenhouse |
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Late Campanian-Maastrichtian cooling3 The Cenozoic world; 3.1 INTRODUCTION; 3.2 CENOZOIC PLATE TECTONICS AND PALAEOGEOGRAPHY; 3.3 IGNEOUS ACTIVITY; 3.4 BOLIDE IMPACTS; 3.4.1 The K-T boundary event; 3.4.2 Later impacts; 3.5 PALAEOCEANOGRAPHY; 3.6 CENOZOIC CLIMATES; 3.6.1 Long-term climate change; 3.6.2 Quaternary climate change; 3.7 CONTROLS ON CENOZOIC CLIMATE CHANGE; 3.7.1 Plate tectonics; 3.7.2 Ocean-atmosphere interaction; 3.7.3 Milankovitch cyclicity; 3.8 SEA-LEVEL CHANGE: CAUSES AND RATES; 3.9 SUMMARY; Paleocene-Eocene greenhouse period; Oligocene-Recent icehouse period |
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4 Calcareous nannoplankton and global climate change4.1 INTRODUCTION -- THE NATURE OF NANNOPLANKTON; 4.2 NANNOPLANKTON AS AGENTS OF GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE; 4.2.1 Primary production; 4.2.2 Calcifcation; 4.2.3 Dimethyl sulphide and global albedo; 4.3 NANNOPLANKTON AS RECORDERS OF GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE: CONTROLS ON BIOGEOGRAPHY; 4.3.1 Evolutionary dispersal/vicariance; 4.3.2 Environment; 4.3.3 Depth structure; 4.4 MESOZOIC AND CENOZOIC NANNOFOSSIL PALAEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; 4.4.1 Environment; 4.5 NANNOFOSSILS AND CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE CRETACEOUS INDIAN OCEAN; 4.5.1 Background; 4.5.2 Case study |
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4.6 CONCLUSIONS5 Phenotypic response of foraminifera to episodes of global environmental change; 5.1 INTRODUCTION; 5.2 MATERIALS AND METHODS; 5.2.1 Morphotype analyses; 5.2.2 Heterochronic analyses; 5.3 TARGET GLOBAL CHANGE EVENTS; 5.3.1 The Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) event; 5.3.2 The Paleocene-Eocene (P-E) thermal maximum event; 5.3.3 The Eocene-Oligocene (E-O) event; 5.4 PATTERNS OF MORPHOTYPIC VARIATION; 5.4.1 Planktonic foraminifera; 5.4.2 Benthic foraminifera; 5.5 PATTERNS OF DEVELOPMENTAL AND LIFE-H ISTORY VARIATION; 5.5.1 Heterochronic response across the K-T boundary |
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5.5.2 Heterochronic response across the P-E boundary |
| Summary |
Investigates the reaction of life to global environmental change, for researchers and graduate students |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-473) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Paleoclimatology.
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Climatic changes
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Climate Change
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climate change.
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Climatic changes
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Paleoclimatology
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Rawson, Peter F
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| ISBN |
9780511049101 |
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0511049102 |
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0511151241 |
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9780511151248 |
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1280421029 |
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9781280421020 |
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9780511535505 |
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0511535503 |
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9780521663045 |
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0521663040 |
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9780521034197 |
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0521034191 |
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