Late Cenozoic Climate Change in Asia -

Late Cenozoic Climate Change in Asia

Loess, Monsoon and Monsoon-arid Environment Evolution

Zhisheng An (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover
587 Seiten
2014
Springer (Verlag)
978-94-007-7816-0 (ISBN)
139,09 inkl. MwSt
This book is the first of its kind on environmental change research devoted to monsoon-arid environment evolution history and its mechanism involved. Capturing the most prominent features of Asian climate and environmental changes, it gives a comprehensive review of the Asian Monsoon records providing evidence for spatial and temporal climatic and environmental changes across the Asian continent since the Late Cenozoic. The dynamics underlying these changes are explored based on various bio-geological records and in particular based on the evidence of loess, speleothems as well as on mammal fossils. The Asian monsoon-arid climate system which quantifies the controlling mechanisms of climate change and the way it operates in different time scales is described. Attempts to differentiate between natural change and human-induced effects, which will help guide policies and countermeasures designed to support sustainable development on the Chinese Loess Plateau and the arid west.

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Chinese Loess and the East Asian monsoon.- Chapter 3. Asian monsoon variability recorded in other archives.- Chapter 4. Asian dust, eolian iron and black carbon--connections to climate and paleoclimate.- Chapter 5. Mammalian evolution in Asia linked to climate changes.- Chapter 6. Late Cenozoic climate change in monsoon-arid Asia and global changes.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 9.4.2014
Reihe/Serie Developments in Paleoenvironmental Research ; 16
Zusatzinfo 146 Illustrations, color; 87 Illustrations, black and white; XV, 587 p. 233 illus., 146 illus. in color.
Verlagsort Dordrecht
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Biologie Ökologie / Naturschutz
Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Geografie / Kartografie
Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Geologie
Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Mineralogie / Paläontologie
Schlagworte aridity • Asian Monsoon • climate change • Late Cenozoic • Tibetan Plateau
ISBN-10 94-007-7816-3 / 9400778163
ISBN-13 978-94-007-7816-0 / 9789400778160
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