Ice Age Earth

Ice Age Earth is the first detailed review of global climate change in the Late Quaternary, combining a summary of research and a synthetic description. Alastair Dawson focuses on changes in the Earth's geology and climate between the last interglacial period and the final melting of the last great ice sheets 130,000 to 7,000 years ago. He describes the study of ocean sediments and ice cores and the value of these findings to the development of advance circulation models, with special emphasis given to regional variability in glacial history, the rapidity of past climate change, and the complexity of environmental responses to widespread deglaciation. Periglacial environments--as well as lakes, rivers, mires, volcanic and aeolian activity, and crustal and sea-level movement--are also considered.Dawson, Alastair G. is the author of 'Ice Age Earth' with ISBN 9780415015660 and ISBN 0415015669.