The Goldilocks planet [electronic resource] : the four billion year story of Earth's climate / Jan Zalasiewicz & Mark Williams.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zalasiewicz, J. A.
Other Authors: Williams, Mark, 1965-
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Subjects:
Paleoclimatology.
Climatic changes.
Historical geology.
Paleobiogeography.
Global environmental change > Forecasting.
Nature > Effect of human beings on.
Online Access:
EBSCO eBooks: 2012 (EBSCO)
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2012 (EBSCO)
eBook Public Library Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2012 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:
Four billion year story of Earth's climate
The Goldilocks Planet: The 4 Billion Year Story of Earth's Climate
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Primordial climate
  • Earth as a snowball
  • Between greenhouse and icehouse
  • The last greenhouse world
  • The ice returns
  • The last of the warmth
  • Into the icehouse
  • The glacial world
  • Birth and death of the Holocene
  • The anthropocene begins.