Tectonic Uplift and Climate Change

Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 1997
ISBN: 978-1-4613-7719-1
Verlag: Springer US

Buch, Englisch, 535 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 1047 g

A significant advance in climatological scholarship, is a multidisciplinary effort to summarize the current status of a new theory steadily gaining acceptance in geoscience circles: that long-term cooling and glaciation are controlled by plateau and mountain uplift. Researchers in many diverse fields, from geology to paleobotany, present data that substantiate this hypothesis. The volume covers most of the key, dramatic transformations of the Earth's surface.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ruddiman, William F.

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geologie Meteorologie, Klimatologie
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Tektonik, Strukturgeologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Introduction to the Uplift-Climate Connection.- 2 The When and Where of the Growth of the Himalaya and the Tibetan Plateau.- 3 Variability in Age of Initial Shortening and Uplift in the Central Andes, 16–33°30?S.- 4 Late Neogene Uplift in Eastern and Southern Africa and its Paleoclimatic Implications.- 5 Mountains and Midlatitude Aridity.- 6 The Effects of Uplift on Ocean-Atmosphere Circulation.- 7 Possible Effects of Cenozoic Uplift and CO2 Lowering on Global and Regional Hydrology.- 8 The Impact of Tibet-Himalayan Elevation on the Sensitivity of the Monsoon Climate System to Changes in Solar Radiation.- 9 Testing the Climatic Effects of Orography and CO2 with General Circulation and Biome Models.- 10 Fluvial Sediment Discharge to the Sea and the Importance of Regional Tectonics.- 11 The Effect of Late Cenozoic Glaciation and Tectonic Uplift on Silicate Weathering Rates and the Marine 87Sr/86Sr Record.- 12 Himalayan Weathering and Erosion Fluxes: Climate and Tectonic Controls.- 13 Late Cenozoic Vegetation Change, Atmospheric CO2, and Tectonics.- 14 Chemical Weathering Yields from Basement and Orogenic Terrains in Hot and Cold Climates.- 15 Silicate Weathering and Climate.- 16 Carbon Cycle Models—How Strong Are the Constraints?.- 17 Os Isotope Record in a Cenozoic Deep-Sea Core: Its Relation to Global Tectonics and Climate.- 18 Global Chemical Erosion during the Cenozoic: Weatherability Balances the Budgets.- 19 The Marine 87Sr/86Sr and ?18O Records, Himalayan Alkalinity Fluxes and Cenozoic Climate Models.- 20 The Uplift-Climate Connection: A Synthesis.