Tectonic Uplift and Climate Change

✍ Scribed by William F. Ruddiman, Warren L. Prell (auth.), William F. Ruddiman (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 537
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A significant advance in climatological scholarship, Tectonic Upliftand 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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xx
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction to the Uplift-Climate Connection....Pages 3-15
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
The When and Where of the Growth of the Himalaya and the Tibetan Plateau....Pages 19-40
Variability in Age of Initial Shortening and Uplift in the Central Andes, 16–33°30′S....Pages 41-61
Late Neogene Uplift in Eastern and Southern Africa and Its Paleoclimatic Implications....Pages 63-86
Front Matter....Pages 87-87
Mountains and Midlatitude Aridity....Pages 89-121
The Effects of Uplift on Ocean-Atmosphere Circulation....Pages 123-147
Possible Effects of Cenozoic Uplift and CO 2 Lowering on Global and Regional Hydrology....Pages 149-170
The Impact of Tibet-Himalayan Elevation on the Sensitivity of the Monsoon Climate System to Changes in Solar Radiation....Pages 171-201
Testing the Climatic Effects of Orography and CO 2 with General Circulation and Biome Models....Pages 203-235
Front Matter....Pages 237-237
Fluvial Sediment Discharge to the Sea and the Importance of Regional Tectonics....Pages 239-257
The Effect of Late Cenozoic Glaciation and Tectonic Uplift on Silicate Weathering Rates and the Marine 87 Sr/ 86 Sr Record....Pages 259-288
Himalayan Weathering and Erosion Fluxes: Climate and Tectonic Controls....Pages 289-312
Late Cenozoic Vegetation Change, Atmospheric CO 2 , and Tectonics....Pages 313-327
Chemical Weathering Yields from Basement and Orogenic Terrains in Hot and Cold Climates....Pages 329-351
Silicate Weathering and Climate....Pages 353-365
Carbon Cycle Models: How Strong Are the Constraints?....Pages 367-381
Os Isotope Record in a Cenozoic Deep-Sea Core: Its Relation to Global Tectonics and Climate....Pages 383-397
Global Chemical Erosion during the Cenozoic: Weatherability Balances the Budgets....Pages 399-426
The Marine 87 Sr/ 86 Sr and δ 18 O Records, Himalayan Alkalinity Fluxes, and Cenozoic Climate Models....Pages 427-467
Front Matter....Pages 470-470
The Uplift-Climate Connection: A Synthesis....Pages 471-515
Back Matter....Pages 517-535

✦ Subjects

Geophysics/Geodesy; Geochemistry