Tectonic uplift and climate change
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.
XX, 535 p. ; 26 cm
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1 Introduction to the Uplift-Climate Connection.- 2 The When and Where of the Growth of the Himalaya and the Tibetan Plateau.- 3 Variability in Age of Initial Shortening and Uplift in the Central Andes, 16–33°30?S.- 4 Late Neogene Uplift in Eastern and Southern Africa and its Paleoclimatic Implications.- 5 Mountains and Midlatitude Aridity.- 6 The Effects of Uplift on Ocean-Atmosphere Circulation.- 7 Possible Effects of Cenozoic Uplift and CO2 Lowering on Global and Regional Hydrology.- 8 The Impact of Tibet-Himalayan Elevation on the Sensitivity of the Monsoon Climate System to Changes in Solar Radiation.- 9 Testing the Climatic Effects of Orography and CO2 with General Circulation and Biome Models.- 10 Fluvial Sediment Discharge to the Sea and the Importance of Regional Tectonics.- 11 The Effect of Late Cenozoic Glaciation and Tectonic Uplift on Silicate Weathering Rates and the Marine 87Sr/86Sr Record.- 12 Himalayan Weathering and Erosion Fluxes: Climate and Tectonic Controls.- 13 Late Cenozoic Vegetation Change, Atmospheric CO2, and Tectonics.- 14 Chemical Weathering Yields from Basement and Orogenic Terrains in Hot and Cold Climates.- 15 Silicate Weathering and Climate.- 16 Carbon Cycle Models—How Strong Are the Constraints?.- 17 Os Isotope Record in a Cenozoic Deep-Sea Core: Its Relation to Global Tectonics and Climate.- 18 Global Chemical Erosion during the Cenozoic: Weatherability Balances the Budgets.- 19 The Marine 87Sr/86Sr and ?18O Records, Himalayan Alkalinity Fluxes and Cenozoic Climate Models.- 20 The Uplift-Climate Connection: A Synthesis.