Global Palaeoclimate of the Late Cenozoic (DEVELOPMENTS IN PALAEONTOLOGY AND STRATIGRAPHY) (English and Russian Edition)

This is a detailed description of the history and chronology of global climate based on event-signal stratigraphy. The history of global climate is described for the last fifty million years with the description for the last one million years in detail. Climatostratigraphic sequences of twelve key regions are taken as a basis, eight of them situated in the USSR territories. Chronology of climatic events of the Pleistocene, Pliocene and Miocene is developed based on palaeomagnetic and radiometric data. The authors' version of its correlation with oxygene-isotope scales of deep-sea sediments is given. Theoretical problems of climatic stratigraphy and palaeoclimatology are discussed, in particular, the causes of climatic change. The Northern Hemisphere palaeoclimatic reconstructions are made for the Holocene, Eemian and Pliocene temperature optima, considered as possible palaeoanalogues of climate of the 21st Century. The book is intended primarily for a wide circle of scientific workers, palaeoclimatologists and palaeogeographers, but will also interest geologists, biologists, palaeomagnetologists and archaeologists. Content: Edited by Page iii Copyright page Page iv Preface Pages ix-xi Vsevolod A. Zubakov, Irena I. Borzenkova Preface to the Russian Edition: Palaeochnates of the Late Cenozoic by V.A. Zubakov and 1.1. Borzenkova (Gidrometeoizdat, 1983) Page xiii Preface to the Russian Edition: The Global Climatic Events of the Pleistocene by V.A. Zubakov (Gidrometeoizdat,1986) Page xv Introduction Pages 3-11 Chapter 1 The Time Structure of Climate Pages 15-38 Chapter 2 Deep-Sea Standard for Global Climatic Events Pages 39-66 Chapter 3 Effects of Global Climatic Events in the Mediterranean-Caspian System Pages 69-100 Chapter 4 The Loess Assemblage of Eurasia as an Indicator of Climatic Changes in the Arid Zone Pages 101-123 Chapter 5 Middle and High Latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere as a Major Record of Continental Glaciations in Pleistocene Time Pages 125-185 Chapter 6 On the Timing of Palaeoclimates in the Pleistocene Pages 189-207 Chapter 7 Climatic Changes in the Early and Middle Pleistocene Pages 209-217 Chapter 8 Climatic Changes in the Late Pleistocene Pages 219-249 Chapter 9 Climatic Changes Through Late Glacial and Postglacial, 16-0 KA BP Pages 251-295 Summary Pages 297-311 Preface Page 315 Introduction Page 317 Chapter 10 Paleoclimates of the Pre-Pliocene Cenozoic Pages 319-350 Chapter 11 Paleoclimates of the Pliocene Pages 351-400 Summary Pages 401-402 Acknowledgements Page 403 References to Part I Pages 405-442 References to Part II Pages 443-453 Subject Index Pages 455-456 This is a detailed decription of the history and chronology of global climate based on event-signal stratigraphy. The history of global climate is described for the last fifty million years with the description for the last one million years in detail. Climatostratigraphic sequences of twelve key regions are taken as a basis, eight of them situated in the USSR territories. Chronology of climatic events of the Pleistocene, Pliocene and Miocene is developed based on palaeomagnetic and radiometric data. The authorsand#39; version of its correlation with oxygene-isotope scales of deep-sea sediment