Late Cenozoic Climate Change in Asia: Loess, Monsoon and Monsoon-Arid Environment Evolution

ISBN-13: 9789402402698 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 587 str.

Zhisheng An

Opis

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.

Recenzje

From the book reviews:

"For those interested in the Asian monsoon region, this will be essential reading, and indeed, it provides an important resource for the palaeoclimate community as a whole. ... this is an invaluable resource for palaeoclimatologists, with more than 90 pages of references. ... the book provides an up-to-date summary of research in China and adjacent regions and demonstrates the significance of changes in that region for the broader earth system." (Raymond S. Bradley, The Holocene, Vol. 25 (2), 2015)

Spis treści

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. ​