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The two-mile time machine : ice cores, abrupt climate change, and our future  Cover Image Book Book

The two-mile time machine : ice cores, abrupt climate change, and our future / Richard B. Alley.

Alley, Richard B. (Author).

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  • ISBN: 0691004935 (alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 9780691004938 (alk. paper)
  • Physical Description: vii, 229 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
  • Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2000.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-222) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
pt. 1. Setting the stage -- 1. Fast forward -- 2. Pointers to the past -- pt. 2. Reading the record -- 3. Going to Greenland -- 4. The icy archives : ice sheets and glaciers -- 5. Ice age through the ice age -- 6. How cold of old? -- 7. Dust in the wind -- 8. Tiny bubbles in the ice -- pt. 3. Crazy climates -- 9. The Saurian sauna -- 10. The solar system swing -- 11. Dancing to the orbital band -- 12. What the worms turned -- pt. 4. Why the weirdness? -- 13. How climate works -- 14. A chaotic conveyor? -- 15. Shoving the system -- pt. 5. Coming craziness? -- 16. Fuelish -- 17. Down the road -- 18. An ice-core view of the future.
Subject: Paleoclimatology.
Climatic changes.
Ice > Greenland > Analysis.
Paléoclimatologie
Climat > Changements
Glace > Groënland > Analyse
IJs (natuur)
Klimaatveranderingen.
Toekomst.

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