The oceans : a deep history / Eelco J. Rohling.

"The 4.4-billion-year history of the oceans and their role in Earth's climate system. It has often been said that we know more about the moon than we do about our own oceans. In fact, we know a great deal more about the oceans than many people realize. Scientists know that our actions today are shap...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rohling, Eelco J. (Author)
Language:English
Published: Princeton, New Jersey ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Paleoceanography.
Ocean > History.
Climatic changes.
Ocean > Effect of human beings on.
Oceanography.
Environment and ecology.
Ocean.
Environment and Ecology.
Klimaänderung.
Meer.
Paläoozeanographie.
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:viii, 262 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Origins. Building a planet, shaping the oceans ; Water, salt, and circulation ; Life, oxygen, and carbon
  • 3. Controls on change. Orbital and solar changes ; Greenhouse gases ; Plate tectonics ; Impacts
  • 4. Snowball Earth and the explosions of life. Into the freezer ; Out of the freezer, into a greenhouse ; A tale of two explosions ; Reverberations
  • 5. Oceans on acid. About acidification ; Acidification in action
  • 6. The age of reptiles. Choking oceans ; Salty giants
  • 7. Winter is coming. Reconstructing sea-level change ; The great northern ice ages ; Ocean controls on CO₂ ; A seesaw in the ocean
  • 8. Future oceans and climate. Our carbon emissions ; Consequences
  • Epilogue.