Late Cenozoic Climate Change in Asia Loess, Monsoon and Monsoon-arid Environment Evolution /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: An, Zhisheng (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Developments in Paleoenvironmental Research, 16
• Subjects: Environment.; Structural geology.; Paleontology.; Geobiology.; Atmospheric sciences.; Climate change.; Geoecology.; Environmental geology.; Climate Change.; Structural Geology.; Atmospheric Sciences.; Biogeosciences.; Geoecology/Natural Processes.

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 providi...

Table of Contents:

• 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.