Call number:
12/ M 15.89487
;
AWI A3-15-89093
Description / Table of Contents:
This is the English translation (and German facsimile) of Wladimir Köppen and Alfred Wegener (1924): The Climates of the Geological Past (Die Klimate der geologischen Vorzeit), a landmark text of early paleoclimatological research. Wegener is best known for his theory of continental drift (The Origin of the Continents and Oceans, 1915). Less widely known, but equally important, are the studies he conducted on the climates of the past (with his colleague and father-in-law, Wladimir Köppen), which they jointly published (this book). Only one edition of the book was published, but unfortunately, all - save a few private copies - were destroyed during the second World War, rendering the book essentially unavailable. This English translation makes Köppen and Wegener's landmark text accessible to the international climate research community. It also includes the 'Supplements and Corrections' by Wladimir Köppen to this book, published in 1940, shortly before his death and a decade after Alfred Wegener's untimely death on Greenland. The discussion of the course and causal relationship of climates and climate change in the geological past are of principal scientific interest. Important elements of the discussions herein stem from the close collaboration with Milutin Milankovitch (who contributed entire sections of text, but is not named as an author). Building on the principles of the Milankovitch frequencies allowed Köppen and Wegener - for the first time, early in the last century - to establish a precise time scale of Late Cenozoic glacial-interglacial cycles. More recently, the orbital parameters originally calculated by Milankovitch were refined using time series data from deep-sea sediments and ice cores. Furthermore, Milankovitch's cycles may be extrapolated into the future to predict climate change. This very book, in which Köppen and Wegener roll out their theory, is therefore an important publication which has early on shaped our understanding of how climate has evolved and continuously evolves in the course of time. This translation affords non-German-speaking scientists and laypersons alike access to the full and compelling arguments of climate change, carefully and readably laid out and argued. It is a must-read for anybody interested in climate change, be it from a historic or present point of view.
Type of Medium:
Monograph available for loan
Pages:
IX, 657 S.
Edition:
Faksimilie-Nachdruck der dt. Originalausg. und komplette engl. Neuübersetzung
ISSN:
9783443010881
Classification:
Historical Geology
Note:
Inhaltsverzeichnis / Contents: Preface 2015. - Note of the translator. - Die Klimate der geologischen Vorzeit. - Einleitung. - 1. Die fossilen Klimazeugen. - 2. Die Klimagürtel im Karbon und Perm. - 3. Die Klimagürtel im Mesozoikum. - 4. Die Klimagürtel in der Tertiärzeit. - 5. Die Klimate in den vorkarbonischen Zeiten. - 6. Polwege und Breitenänderungen in der Erdgeschichte. - 7. Die Klimate des Quartärs. - Index. - Die Klimate der geologischen Vorzeit - Ergänzungen und Berichtigungen. - The climates of the geological past. - Contents. - Table of figures. - Introduction. - 1. Fossil climate indicators. - 2. The climate belts of the carboniferous and permian. - 3. The climate belts of the Mesozoic. - 4. The climate belts of the tertiary. - 5. The climates of the pre-carboniferous periods. - 6. Pole migrations and latitude changes in earth's history. - 7. Climates of the quaternary. - Index. - The climates of the geological past - supplements and corrections.
Location:
Upper compact magazine
Location:
AWI Reading room
Branch Library:
GFZ Library
Branch Library:
AWI Library
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