Bazsites.com Paleogeography And Paleoclimatology
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- Atlantis and Paleogeography - Known paleogeography is compared to the geography of Plato's Atlantis. Written for a general audience it sums up relevant facts including from recent research, and illustrates with video and multimedia.
- Paleogeography of the Southwestern US - Maps showing period-by-period reconstructions of the paleogeography of Southwest United States.
- NOAA Paleoclimatology Program - Paleoclimate data, applied research, and education. Features an interface to the World Data Center for paleoclimatology, offering access to original scientific data.
- PAGES - International Geosphere-Biosphere Program (IGBP) on paleoclimatology.
- Geology Resources at Colorado University - Paleogeography "movies" of the southwestern United States and the western hemisphere based upon maps made at Northern Arizona by Ron Blakely.
- Paleoclimatology and Climate System Dynamics - Introduction to the field by Jonathan T. Overpeck. Provided by the American Geophysical Union.
- Himalayan Interdisciplinary Paleoclimate Project - Research into the paleoclimatology of the Himalayan mountains, focused on understanding changes in the Indian and Plateau monsoons over the past 2000 years, 20,000 years, and beyond.
- The Paleogeographic Atlas Project - Global paleogeography and paleoclimates, with emphasis on the Permian and Jurassic. Climate-sensitive sediment and fossil plant distributions are shown on detailed paleogeographic maps, enabling determinations of global paleoclimate patterns.
- Caribbean Tectonic Reconstructions - Reconstructions of the Caribbean at various times in the geologic past (past 200 million years)
- Plate Movements and Climate Change - Student exercise from Karen L. Bice of Pennsylvania State University.
Wikipedia Articles
- Paleoclimatology - Paleoclimatology (also Palaeoclimatology) is the study of climate change taken on the scale of the entire history of Earth. It uses records from ice sheets, tree rings, sediment, and rocks to determine the past state of the climate system on Earth.
- Historical climatology - Historical climatology is the study of historical changes in climate and their effect on human history and development. This differs from paleoclimatology which encompasses climate change over the entire history of the earth.
- Δ18O - In geochemistry, paleoclimatology and paleoceanography δ18O is the ratio of stable isotopes 18O:16O. It is commonly used as a measure of the temperature of precipitation, as a measure of groundwater/mineral interactions, as an indicator of processes that show isotopic fractionation, like methanogenesis.
- Jean Robert Petit - Jean Robert Petit studied chemistry and physics at the University of Grenoble and received a PhD in 1984 in paleoclimatology on the study of the aeolian dust record from Antarctic ice cores.
- Terrane - A terrane in paleogeography is an accretion that has collided with a continental nucleus, or "craton" but can be recognized by the foreign origin of its rock strata. The crustal block or fragment preserves its own distinctive geologic history, which is different from the surrounding areas.