Prologue
1: Primordial climate
2: Snowball Earth
3: Between greenhouse and icehouse
4: The last long greenhouse
5: An ice age begins
6: Last gasp of a warm Earth
7: Into the icehouse
8: The glacial world
9: The last ten thousand years
10: The Anthropocene begins
Dr Jan Zalasiewicz is Senior Lecturer in Geology at Leicester
University. A field geologist, palaeontologist, and stratigrapher,
he teaches various aspects of geology and Earth history to
undergraduate and postgraduate students, and is a researcher into
fossil ecosystems and environments across over half a billion years
of geological time. He is the author of The Earth After Us and
Thirteen Journeys Through a Pebble, both published by OUP. He
has
published over a hundred papers in scientific journals.
Dr Mark Williams is Reader in Geology at Leicester University and a
former scientist with the British Antarctic Survey. He has a strong
interest in how the fossil record reflects changes in Earth's
climate through time. He teaches many aspects of geology but
especially climate change over geological timescales. He has
published over a hundred papers in scientific journals.
A balanced, well written, mostly comprehensive and well-argued
book.
*Times Higher Education Supplement*
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