TY  - BOOK
AU  - An,Zhisheng
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Late Cenozoic Climate Change in Asia: Loess, Monsoon and Monsoon-arid Environment Evolution 
T2  - Developments in Paleoenvironmental Research,
SN  - 9789400778177
AV  - QC902.8-903.2 
U1  - 577.27 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Dordrecht
PB  - Springer Netherlands, Imprint: Springer
KW  - Environment
KW  - Structural geology
KW  - Paleontology
KW  - Geobiology
KW  - Atmospheric sciences
KW  - Climate change
KW  - Geoecology
KW  - Environmental geology
KW  - Climate Change
KW  - Structural Geology
KW  - Atmospheric Sciences
KW  - Biogeosciences
KW  - Geoecology/Natural Processes
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Chinese Loess and the East Asian monsoon -- Chapter 3. Asian monsoon variability recorded in other archives -- Chapter 4. Asian dust, eolian iron and black carbon--connections to climate and paleoclimate -- Chapter 5. Mammalian evolution in Asia linked to climate changes -- Chapter 6. Late Cenozoic climate change in monsoon-arid Asia and global changes
N2  - This book is the first of its kind on environmental change research devoted to monsoon-arid environment evolution history and its mechanism involved. Capturing the most prominent features of Asian climate and environmental changes, it gives a comprehensive review of the Asian Monsoon records providing evidence for spatial and temporal climatic and environmental changes across the Asian continent since the Late Cenozoic. The dynamics underlying these changes are explored based on various bio-geological records and in particular based on the evidence of loess, speleothems as well as on mammal fossils. The Asian monsoon-arid climate system which quantifies the controlling mechanisms of climate change and the way it operates in different time scales is described. Attempts to differentiate between natural change and human-induced effects, which will help guide policies and countermeasures designed to support sustainable development on the Chinese Loess Plateau and the arid west
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ER  -