
Late Cenozoic Climate Change in Asia
Loess, Monsoon and Monsoon-arid Environment Evolution
Zhisheng An(Editor)
Springer (Publisher)
Published on 3. September 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
XV, 587 pages
978-94-024-0269-8 (ISBN)
Description
This book is the first of its kind on environmental change research devoted to monsoon-arid environment evolution history and its mechanism involved. Capturing the most prominent features of Asian climate and environmental changes, it gives a comprehensive review of the Asian Monsoon records providing evidence for spatial and temporal climatic and environmental changes across the Asian continent since the Late Cenozoic. The dynamics underlying these changes are explored based on various bio-geological records and in particular based on the evidence of loess, speleothems as well as on mammal fossils. The Asian monsoon-arid climate system which quantifies the controlling mechanisms of climate change and the way it operates in different time scales is described. Attempts to differentiate between natural change and human-induced effects, which will help guide policies and countermeasures designed to support sustainable development on the Chinese Loess Plateau and the arid west.
Reviews / Votes
From the book reviews:
"For those interested in the Asian monsoon region, this will be essential reading, and indeed, it provides an important resource for the palaeoclimate community as a whole. . this is an invaluable resource for palaeoclimatologists, with more than 90 pages of references. . the book provides an up-to-date summary of research in China and adjacent regions and demonstrates the significance of changes in that region for the broader earth system." (Raymond S. Bradley, The Holocene, Vol. 25 (2), 2015)
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Series
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014
Language
English
Place of publication
Dordrecht
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
146 farbige Abbildungen, 87 s/w Abbildungen
XV, 587 p. 233 illus., 146 illus. in color.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 31 mm
Weight
1012 gr
ISBN-13
978-94-024-0269-8 (9789402402698)
DOI
10.1007/978-94-007-7817-7
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Late Cenozoic Climate Change in Asia
Loess, Monsoon and Monsoon-arid Environment Evolution
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Content
Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Chinese Loess and the East Asian monsoon.- Chapter 3. Asian monsoon variability recorded in other archives.- Chapter 4. Asian dust, eolian iron and black carbon--connections to climate and paleoclimate.- Chapter 5. Mammalian evolution in Asia linked to climate changes.- Chapter 6. Late Cenozoic climate change in monsoon-arid Asia and global changes.