Ice Ages

Solving the Mystery

Katherine Palmer Imbrie

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$34.00 • £29.95 • €30.95

ISBN 9780674440753

Publication Date: 07/30/1986

Short

224 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

11 halftones, 31 line illustrations, 3 maps

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Preface [1978]
Note to the Paperback Edition
List of Illustrations
Prologue: The Forgotten Ice Age
I. Ice Age Discovered
- 1. Louis Agassiz and the Glacial Theory
- 2. The Triumph of the Glacial Theory
- 3. Exploring the Ice-Age World
II. Explaining the Ice Ages
- 4. The Ice-Age Problem
- 5. Birth of the Astronomical Theory
- 6. The Astronomical Theory of James Croll
- 7. Debate Over Croll’s Theory
- 8. Through Distant Worlds and Times
- 9. The Milankovitch Controversy
- 10. The Deep and the Past
- 11. Pleistocene Temperatures
- 12. Milankovitch Revival
- 13. Signal from the Earth
- 14. Pulsebeat of Climate
- 15. Pacemaker of the Ice Ages
III. Ice Ages of the Future
- 16. The Coming Ice Age
Epilogue: The Last Billion Years of Climate
Appendix: Chronology of Discovery
Suggested Reading
Bibliography
Index

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