Ice Ages and Interglacials Measurements, Interpretation, and Models /

• Main Author: Rapp, Donald (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 3rd ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Atmospheric sciences.; Climatology.; Astronomy.; Astrophysics.; Oceanography.; Atmospheric Sciences.; Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology.

It is not so long ago (a mere 17,000 years - a blink in geologic time) that vast areas of the Northern Hemisphere were covered with ice sheets up to two miles thick, lowering the oceans by more than 120 m. By 11,000 years ago, most of the ice was gone. Evidence from polar ice cores and ocean sedimen...