Tectonic Uplift and Climate ChangeWilliam F. Ruddiman A significant advance in climatological scholarship, Tectonic Uplift and Climate Change is a multidisciplinary effort to summarize the current status of a new theory steadily gaining acceptance in geoscience circles: that long-term cooling and glaciation are controlled by plateau and mountain uplift. Researchers in many diverse fields, from geology to paleobotany, present data that substantiate this hypothesis. The volume covers most of the key, dramatic transformations of the Earth's surface. |
Contents
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Chapter 16 | 14 |
Evidence of Cenozoic Uplift | 18 |
Indirect Methods of Assessing Tectonism | 26 |
Relations between Tectonics and Climate | 33 |
Chapter 11 | 259 |
Areas for Further Research | 285 |
The Bengal Fan | 291 |
813C Constraints on the Weathering Paleoenvironment | 299 |
A Model for Neogene Weathering Processes in the Himalaya | 306 |
Chapter 13 | 313 |
Changes in Atmospheric CO₂? | 322 |
Chapter 14 | 329 |
Variability in Age of Initial Shortening and Uplift in the Central Andes | 41 |
Conclusions | 56 |
Chapter 4 | 63 |
East Africa | 70 |
Southern Africa | 78 |
General Circulation Model Studies of Uplift Effects on Climate | 88 |
Model Description | 92 |
LargeScale Atmospheric Circulation | 101 |
Chapter 5 | 117 |
Introduction | 124 |
Discussion | 142 |
Chapter 7 | 149 |
Results | 155 |
Discussion | 164 |
Chapter 8 | 171 |
Sensitivity of the Monsoon Hydrologic Cycles | 185 |
Simulations for UpliftMonsoon Interactions | 192 |
Summary | 200 |
Summary | 231 |
Chapter 10 | 239 |
Factors Affecting Dissolved Sediment Discharge | 250 |
Conclusions | 349 |
Silicate Weathering Rate on the Present Earth | 356 |
Climate Tectonics | 362 |
Carbon Cycle ModelsHow Strong Are the Constraints? | 367 |
Sensitivity Tests | 373 |
Discussion | 379 |
Discussion | 389 |
Summary | 395 |
Description of the Model | 402 |
Chapter 19 | 427 |
Deconstructing Blag | 435 |
Quantifying the Raymo Hypothesis | 444 |
Other Considerations | 463 |
A Synthesis | 471 |
Effects of Cenozoic Uplift on Circulation and Climate | 478 |
Effects of Uplift on Physical and Chemical Weathering | 487 |
Effects of UpliftDriven Changes in CO₂ and Climate 2 | 494 |
Hypotheses of Cenozoic Climate Change | 504 |
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