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Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future - Updated Edition
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Description

In the 1990s Richard B. Alley and his colleagues made headlines with the discovery that the last ice age came to an abrupt end over a period of only three years. In The Two-Mile Time Machine, Alley tells the fascinating history of global climate changes as revealed by reading the annual rings of ice from cores drilled in Greenland. He explains that

Author Biography:

Richard B. Alley is the Evan Pugh Professor of Geosciences at Pennsylvania State University and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. The author of more than 240 scientific papers, he was also the host of the PBS miniseries Earth: The Operators' Manual.
Release date Australia
October 26th, 2014
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
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  • Preface by Richard B. Alley
Edition
Revised edition
Pages
248
Dimensions
152x229x17
ISBN-13
9780691160832
Product ID
22332754

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