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Palaeoclimates and their Modelling

With special reference to the Mesozoic era

By: J.R.L. Allen,B.J. Hoskins,P.J. Valdes,B.W. Sellwood,R. Spicer

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Palaeoclimates and their Modelling

With special reference to the Mesozoic era

By: J.R.L. Allen,B.J. Hoskins,P.J. Valdes,B.W. Sellwood,R. Spicer

The climate of the Earth has undergone many changes and for those times when geologic data are widespread and abundant the Mesozoic appears to have been one of the warmest intervals. This was a time during which the single continent Pangea disintegrated into continental units similar to those of today, a time when there were no significant polar ice caps and sea level was generally much higher than at the present time, and a time when dinosaurs apparently dominated terrestrial faunas and the flowering plants evolved. Understanding this alien world, ancestral to ours, is intrinsically interesting, intellectually challenging, and offers opportunities for more effective targeting of sites where commercially important geological resources may be found. It also provides critical insights into the operation of coupled Earth systems (biospheric, atmospheric, hydrospheric and geospheric) under extreme 'greenhouse' conditions, and therefore may have relevance to possible future global change. Our intention in organizing this Discussion Meeting was to bring together those who gather and interpret geologic data with those who model global climates from first principles. The community of workers who study the Quaternary have made significant advances by integrating and comparing palaeodata and climate model experiments. Although we have focused not on the Quaternary 'icehouse' but on the Mesozoic 'hothouse' climate we are well aware that approaches used in the study of the Quaternary may have relevance to earlier times.

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Star Clusters

Saas-Fee Advanced Course 28. Lecture Notes 1998 Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy

By: B.W. Carney,W.E. Harris

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Star Clusters

Saas-Fee Advanced Course 28. Lecture Notes 1998 Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy

By: B.W. Carney,W.E. Harris

Star clusters are at the heart of astronomy, being key objects for our understanding of stellar evolution and galactic structure. Observations with the Hubble Space Telescope and other modern equipment have revealed fascinating new facts about these galactic building blocks. This book provides two comprehensive and up-to-date, pedagogically designed reviews on star clusters by two well-known experts in the field. Bruce Carney presents our current knowledge of the relative and absolute ages of globular clusters and the chemical history of our Galaxy. Bill Harris addresses globular clusters in external galaxies and their use as tracers of galaxy formation and cosmic distance indicators. The book is written for graduate students as well as professionals in astronomy and astrophysics.

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Palaeoclimates and their Modelling

With special reference to the Mesozoic era

By: J.R.L. Allen,B.J. Hoskins,P.J. Valdes,B.W. Sellwood,R. Spicer

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With special reference to the Mesozoic era

By: J.R.L. Allen,B.J. Hoskins,P.J. Valdes,B.W. Sellwood,R. Spicer

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