Title:
Waking the giant : how a changing climate triggers earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanoes / Bill McGuire.
ISBN:
9780199592265
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Oxford : Oxford Univ Press, 2012.
Physical Description:
xiv, 303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents:
The storm after the calm -- Once and future climate -- Nice day for an eruption -- Bouncing back -- Earth in motion -- Water, water, everywhere -- Reawakening the giant.
Summary:
Twenty thousand years ago our planet was an icehouse. Temperatures were down six degrees; ice sheets kilometres thick buried much of Europe and North America and sea levels were 130m lower. The following 15 millennia saw an astonishing transformation as our planet metamorphosed into the temperate world upon which our civilisation has grown and thrived. One of the most dynamic periods in Earth history saw rocketing temperatures melt the great ice sheets like butter on a hot summer'sday; feeding torrents of freshwater into ocean basins that rapidly filled to present levels.
OCLC Number:
ocn752069075
Availability:
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