Tectonic uplift and climate change /

Tectonic uplift and climate change / edited by William F. Ruddiman - New York : Plenum Press, c1997. - xx, 535 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Review of Uplift/Climate Hypotheses; W.F. Ruddiman, W.L. Prell.
Evidence of Cenozoic Uplift: The When and Where of the Growth of the Himalaya and Tibetan Plateau; P. Copeland. Variability in Age of Initial Shortening and Uplift in the Central Andes, 16-33 Degrees30?S; T.E. Jordan, et al.
Late Neogene Uplift in Eastern and Southern Africa and Its Paleoclimatic Implications; T.C. Partridge. General Circulation Model Studies of Uplift Effects on Climate: Mountains and Midlatitude Aridity; A.J. Broccoli, S. Manabe. The Effects of Uplift on Ocean-Atmosphere Circulation; D. Rind, et al. Possible Effects of Cenozoic Uplift and CO2
Lowering on Global and Regional Hydrology; J.E. Kutzbach, et al.
The Impact of Tibet - Himalayan Elevation on the Sensitivity of the Monsoon Climate System to Changes in Solar Radiation; W.L. Prell, J.E. Kutzbach. Testing the Climatic Effects of Orography and CO2 with General Circulation and Biome Models; W.F. Ruddiman, et al.
Geological and Geochemical Evidence of Uplift Effects on Weathering and CO2:
Fluvial Sediment Discharge to the Sea and the Importance of Regional Tectonics; J.D. Milliman. The Effect of Late Cenozoic Glaciation and Tectonic Uplift on Silicate Weathering Rates and the Marine 87Sr/86Sr Record; J.D. Blum. Himalayan Weathering and Erosion Fluxes: Climatic and Tectonic Controls; L.A. Derry, C. France-Lanord. Late Cenozoic Vegetation Change, Atmospheric CO2, and Tectonics; T.E. Cerling. Chemical Weathering Yields from Basement and Orogenic Terrains in Hot and Cold Climates; J.M. Edmond, Y. Huh. Silicate Weathering and Climate ; R.A.Berner, E.K. Berner. Carbon Cycle Models -- How Strong Are the Constraints? M.E. Raymo. Os Isotope Record in a Cenozoic Deep-Sea Core: Its Relation to Global Tectonics and Climate; K.K. Turekian, W.J. Pegram. Global Chemical Erosion during the Cenozoic: Weatherability Balances the Budgets; L.R. Kump, M.A. Arthur. The Marine 87 Sr/86 Sr and 18 O Records, Himalayan Alkalinity Fluxes, and Cenozoic Climate Models; S.E. McCauley, D.J. DePaolo. Synthesis: The Uplift-Climate Connection: A Synthesis; W.F. Ruddiman, et al

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Climatic changes.
Weather, Influence of mountains on.
Geology, Stratigraphic

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