- 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


Ice Ages
Solving the Mystery
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PAPERBACK
$34.00 • £29.95 • €30.95
ISBN 9780674440753
Publication Date: 07/30/1986