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The Quarternary in the Tropics : a reconstruction of the palaeoclimate / Klaus Heine.

The Ice Age (Quaternary) is a period of extreme climate fluctuations that led to the growth and melting of massive ice sheets in the high latitudes. Tropical deserts, savannas, rainforests, and mountainous regions experienced equal dramatic climatic changes of which the traces are preserved in sedim...

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Main Author: Heine, Klaus
Other title:Quartàˆr in den Tropen. English
Format: eBook
Language:English
German
Published: Cham : Springer, 2024.
Series:Springer textbooks in earth sciences, geography and environment.
Subjects:
Paleoclimatology > Quaternary.
Paleoclimatology > Tropics.
Tropics > Climate.
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Foreword
  • Contents
  • About the Author
  • 1: Introduction
  • 1.1 Why Ice Age Research in the Tropics?
  • 1.2 Climate Change in the Tropics
  • 2: The Ice Age
  • 2.1 The Quaternary
  • 2.2 Introduction to the Basics of Quaternary Research
  • 2.2.1 Circulation of the Oceans and the Atmosphere
  • 2.2.2 The Oceans
  • 2.2.2.1 The Water Cycle
  • 2.2.3 The Atmosphere
  • 2.2.4 The Biosphere
  • 2.2.5 Causes of Climate Change
  • 3: The Tropics
  • 3.1 General
  • 3.2 Delimitation of the Tropics
  • 3.3 Geography of the Tropics
  • 4: Climate Archives
  • 4.1 General
  • 4.2 Terrestrial Climate Witnesses
  • 4.2.1 Glaciers
  • 4.2.2 Glacial Deposits and Landforms
  • 4.2.3 The Periglacial
  • 4.2.3.1 Permafrost
  • 4.2.3.2 Witnesses of Permafrost
  • 4.2.3.3 Paraglacial Erosion and Accumulation
  • 4.2.4 Aeolian Processes
  • 4.2.4.1 Dunes
  • 4.2.4.2 Dust
  • 4.2.5 Weathering and Soil Formation
  • 4.2.5.1 General Information
  • 4.2.5.2 Physical, Chemical and Biotic Processes
  • 4.2.5.3 Slope Deposits (Colluvium), (Palaeo)Soils
  • 4.2.6 Fluvial and Limnic Processes
  • 4.2.6.1 Rivers and Their Sediments as Geoarchives
  • 4.2.6.2 Lake Sediments as Geoarchives
  • 4.2.7 Groundwater, Speleothems, Borehole Temperatures
  • 4.2.7.1 Groundwater
  • 4.2.7.2 Caves, Speleothems (Speleothems)
  • 4.2.7.3 Borehole Temperatures
  • 4.2.8 Flora and Fauna
  • 4.2.8.1 General
  • 4.2.8.2 Flora
  • 4.2.8.3 Fauna (Mammals, Insects, etc.)
  • 4.2.8.4 DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid)
  • 4.2.9 Tephrostratigraphy
  • 4.2.10 Archives (Maps, Pictures, Reports, Etc.), Historical Data
  • 4.3 Marine Climate Witnesses
  • 4.3.1 Marine Sediments
  • 4.3.2 Corals
  • 4.3.3 Marine Terraces, Storm and Tsunami Sediments
  • 4.4 Age Determination
  • 4.5 Climate Models
  • 5: Regional Description - Central and South America, Including Caribbean Islands
  • 5.1 General
  • 5.2 Tropical South America
  • 5.2.1 Paleoclimate Archives with a Large Temporal Range
  • 5.2.2 The Last Glacial Maximum (ca. 21,000 Years Before present) in Amazonia
  • 5.2.3 The Last Glacial Maximum (ca. 21,000 years before present) in the Andes
  • 5.2.4 The Late Glacial/Holocene Transition Period (Termination I)
  • 5.2.5 The Holocene
  • 5.2.6 Synopsis
  • 5.3 Mexico and Central America
  • 5.3.1 Mexico
  • 5.3.2 Central America
  • 5.3.3 The Holocene
  • 5.3.4 Synopsis
  • 6: Regional Description - Africa and Madagascar
  • 6.1 General
  • 6.2 Tropical Africa
  • 6.2.1 Palaeoclimate Archives with a Large Period
  • 6.2.2 The Last Glacial Maximum (ca. 21,000 years before today) in Central and East Africa
  • 6.2.3 The Last Glacial Maximum (ca. 21,000 Years Before Today) in Tropical Alternate-Humid Africa
  • 6.2.4 The Late-Glacial/Holocene Transition Period (Termination I)
  • 6.2.5 The Holocene
  • 6.3 Synopsis
  • 7: Regional Description: South and Southeast Asia
  • 7.1 General
  • 7.2 The Indian Subcontinent and the Himalayan-Tibetan Orogen

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