… change from the past greenhouse world with no major polar ice caps to our present icehouse
… Geological evidence from rocks and fossils from the Antarctic continent and from marine …

… from typically more offshore groups as planktonic foraminifera, coccolithophorids, diatoms
and radiolaria. By presenting case-studies from … Representing Earth's greenhouse–icehouse …

… in Earth's climatic history, when the warm, high-diversity" greenhouse" world of the early
Eocene ceded to the glacial," icehouse" conditions of the early Oligocene. This book surveys the …

… from the atmosphere, these soils are stripped from the land and the CO2 becomes locked in
… This explosion of life from 580 to 520 Ma gave us all of the major life forms currently present …

… c ooling ,from bipolar ice- free ( greenhouse )to bipolar icesheets (icehouse ),experienced …
O increased rapidly from 1.2‰ to 3.0‰ in a short tim e ,deep- sea tem perature decreased …

… was entirely distinct from that of today, providing an independent data set from which we
can … From the late Paleozoic record, we conclude that many effects of an icehouse-greenhouse …

The general public hears only about the successful experiments in science. What is usually
not reported is the fact that for every scientific success, there may be numerous failures, false …

… from the atmosphere, these soils are stripped from the land and the CO, becomes locked in
sediments on the ocean floor. When atmospheric CO, is low, glaciation occurs. Large climate …

… Starting in the earliest Oligocene (Oi-1 event), the icehouse sediments provide records of …
The cores also reveal details of the tectonic history of the Australo-Antarctic Gulf from 54 Ma …

… This polar vegetation is quite distinct from the extant Boreal Forest. First, as the name implies…
Data derived from multiple runs of a sunrise/sunset program from the US Naval Observatory…