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Tables of Contents for The Great Ice Age
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of figures
viii
 
List of boxes
xv
 
List of tables
xvi
 
Preface
xvii
 
PART 1: CYCLES OF CLIMATIC CHANGE: EVIDENCE AND EXPLANATIONS
1
160
The Great Ice Age
3
27
Introduction
3
6
Climatic detective work
9
7
A global perspective
16
7
Colder and drier, warmer and wetter
23
4
Summary
27
1
Further reading
28
2
Understanding Present and Past Climates
30
19
Introduction
30
1
Moving heat around
31
5
Forcing functions and feedbacks
36
7
The evidence
43
3
Understanding climate change
46
1
Summary
46
1
Further reading
47
2
Understanding the Cryosphere
49
18
Introduction
49
1
How ice sheets work
50
9
How do ice sheets get started?
59
2
The Milankovich theory of ice ages
61
4
Summary
65
1
Further reading
66
1
The Deep Sea Record
67
16
Introduction
67
1
Deep sea sediments
67
4
Oxygen isotope studies
71
6
Global changes of sea-level
77
2
Oxygen isotope stages
79
1
Post-Cretaceous cooling
80
1
Summary
81
1
Further reading
82
1
Revealing the Milankovich Pacemaker
83
30
Introduction
83
1
The deep-sea oxygen isotope record
83
8
Cave deposits
91
2
Dust, monsoons and Milankovich
93
6
The record in ice sheets
99
12
Summary
111
1
Further reading
112
1
Evidence for Rapid Climate Change
113
26
Introduction
113
1
North Atlantic iceberg armadas
113
7
Rapid eustatic sea-level changes
120
1
Greenland ice cores
121
10
Millennial scale events in the loess record
131
1
Millennial scale events in the NE Pacific
132
4
Summary
136
2
Further reading
138
1
Explanations
139
22
Introduction
139
1
Post-Cretaceous cooling
139
7
Over the threshold
146
3
The Mid-Pleistocene revolution
149
1
The change from 40 thousand year to 100 thousand year cyclicity
150
3
Millennial-scale climate changes and reorganisations of ocean circulation
153
3
What next-when will the present interglacial end?
156
2
Summary
158
1
Further reading
159
2
PART 2: ECOLOGICAL CHANGE AND HUMAN ORIGINS
161
92
Climate Change and Life on Land
163
24
Introduction
163
1
Plants and climate change
164
8
Insects as climate indicators
172
2
Climate changes at lower latitudes
174
7
Changes in deserts
181
2
Consequences of climate change
183
2
Summary
185
1
Further reading
186
1
The Record of Humanity
187
27
What is humanity?
187
1
A fragmentary record
188
1
The first tools and their users
189
4
The roots of the human evolutionary bush
193
6
Culture and human waves
199
5
The last 500 thousand years
204
4
Our African ancestry
208
3
Summary
211
2
Further reading
213
1
Changing Environments and Changing Habits
214
22
Africa's Great Rift
214
2
Out of the trees
216
2
Birth pains
218
1
Times of stress; tools and new opportunities
219
1
Changing brains and bellies
220
2
Early human migrations: pathways and barriers
222
1
Climate and humans
223
1
Neanderthals and modern humans
224
2
Modern humans go east
226
2
The human impact on environments
228
6
Summary
234
1
Further reading
235
1
Human Impact during the Holocene
236
17
Enter economics: the emergence of agriculture
236
4
Direct human impact on Holocene environments
240
8
Forward to the past, quickly?
248
3
Summary
251
1
Further reading
252
1
List of figure sources
253
7
Index
260