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The NATO Advanced Research Workshop on "Paleoclimatology and Paleometeorology: Modem and Past Patterns of Global Atmospheric Transport" (held at Oracle, Arizona, USA from November 17-19, 1987) brought together atmospheric chemists, physicists, and meteorologists who study the origin and transport of modem-day mineral and biological aerosols with geologists and paleobotanists who study the sedimentary record of eolian and hydrologic processes along with modelers who study and conceptualize the processes influencing atmospheric transport at present and in the past. Presentations at the workshop provided a guide to our present knowledge of the entire spectrum of processes and phenomena important to the generation, transport, and deposition of eolian terrigenous material that ultimately becomes part of the geologic record and the modeling techniques that used to represent these processes. The presenta tions on the geologic record of eolian deposition documented our present understanding of the na~e and causes of climate change on time scales of the last glacial ages (tens of thousands of years) to time scales over which the arrangement of continents, mountains, and oceans has changed sub stantially (tens of millions of years). There has been a growing recognition of the importance of global climatic changes to the future well-being of humanity. In particular, the climatic response to human alterations to the earth's surface and chemical composition has led to concern over the agricultural, ecological, and societal impacts of such potential global changes.
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Table of contents (41 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Dust Formation, Injection, and Continental Aridity
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Front Matter
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Dust Composition and Factors Controlling it: Evidence from Aerosols and Sediments
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Front Matter
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Reviews
`This volume should be a valuable reference for those, such as geomorphologists, climatologists and quaternary geologists, who specialize in its subject matter.'
Australian Mineral Foundation in Esrisat, 18:6.
`... this volume provides a very up to date, comprehensive and carefully compiled selection of material which will be of interest to everybody concerned with climatic change and its causes.'
GeoJournal 23 (4) April 1991
Australian Mineral Foundation in Esrisat, 18:6.
`... this volume provides a very up to date, comprehensive and carefully compiled selection of material which will be of interest to everybody concerned with climatic change and its causes.'
GeoJournal 23 (4) April 1991
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Book Title: Paleoclimatology and Paleometeorology: Modern and Past Patterns of Global Atmospheric Transport
Editors: Margaret Leinen, Michael Sarnthein
Series Title: Nato Science Series C:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0995-3
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers 1989
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-0341-1Published: 30 September 1989
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-6937-3Published: 09 August 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-0995-3Published: 06 December 2012
Series ISSN: 1389-2185
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 909
Topics: Atmospheric Sciences, Sedimentology, Hydrogeology