Tectonic Uplift and Climate Change [Paperback]

A significant advance in climatological scholarship, Tectonic Uplift and Climate Change is a multidisciplinary effort to summarize the current status of a new theory steadily gaining acceptance in geoscience circles: that long-term cooling and glaciation are controlled by plateau and mountain uplift. Researchers in many diverse fields, from geology to paleobotany, present data that substantiate this hypothesis. The volume covers most of the key, dramatic transformations of the Earth's surface.A significant advance in climatological scholarship, Tectonic Uplift and Climate Change is a multidisciplinary effort to summarize the current status of a new theory steadily gaining acceptance in geoscience circles: that long-term cooling and glaciation are controlled by plateau and mountain uplift. Researchers in many diverse fields, from geology to paleobotany, present data that substantiate this hypothesis. The volume covers most of the key, dramatic transformations of the Earth's surface.Introduction: Review of Uplift/Climate Hypotheses; W.F. Ruddiman, W.L. Prell. Evidence of Cenozoic Uplift: The When and Where of the Growth of the Himalaya and Tibetan Plateau; P. Copeland. Variability in Age of Initial Shortening and Uplift in the Central Andes, 16-33?30?S; T.E. Jordan, et al. Late Neogene Uplift in Eastern and Southern Africa and Its Paleoclimatic Implications; T.C. Partridge. General Circulation Model Studies of Uplift Effects on Climate: Mountains and Midlatitude Aridity; A.J. Broccoli, S. Manabe. The Effects of Uplift on Ocean-Atmosphere Circulation; D. Rind, et al. Possible Effects of Cenozoic Uplift and CO2 Lowering on Global and Regional Hydrology; J.E. Kutzbach, et al. The Impact of Tibet - Himalayan Elevation on the Sensitivity of the Monsoon Climate System to Changes in Solar Radiation; W.L. Prell, J.E. Kutzbach. Testing the Climatic Effects of OrogralC™