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The climate of the Earth has undergone many changes and for those times when geologic data are widespread and abundant the Mesozoic appears to have been one of the warmest intervals. This was a time during which the single continent Pangea disintegrated into continental units similar to those of today, a time when there were no significant polar ice caps and sea level was generally much higher than at the present time, and a time when dinosaurs apparently dominated terrestrial faunas and the flowering plants evolved. Understanding this alien world, ancestral to ours, is intrinsically interesting, intellectually challenging, and offers opportunities for more effective targeting of sites where commercially important geological resources may be found. It also provides critical insights into the operation of coupled Earth systems (biospheric, atmospheric, hydrospheric and geospheric) under extreme 'greenhouse' conditions, and therefore may have relevance to possible future global change. Our intention in organizing this Discussion Meeting was to bring together those who gather and interpret geologic data with those who model global climates from first principles. The community of workers who study the Quaternary have made significant advances by integrating and comparing palaeodata and climate model experiments. Although we have focused not on the Quaternary 'icehouse' but on the Mesozoic 'hothouse' climate we are well aware that approaches used in the study of the Quaternary may have relevance to earlier times.
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The book shows what can begin to be achieved when information, techniques and insights from a wide range of fields are considered together. - Pascal-Geode
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Palaeoclimates and their Modelling
Book Subtitle: With special reference to the Mesozoic era
Editors: J. R. L. Allen, B. J. Hoskins, B. W. Sellwood, R. A. Spicer, P. J. Valdes
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1254-3
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1994
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-412-56330-0Published: 30 April 1994
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-4546-9Published: 03 October 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-1254-3Published: 06 December 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 140
Topics: Atmospheric Sciences, Paleontology, Ecotoxicology, Evolutionary Biology