Reconstructing Earth's climate history: inquiry-based exercises for lab and class

"The context for understanding global climate change today lies in the records of Earth's past. This is demonstrated by decades of paleoclimate research by scientists in organizations such as the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP), the Antarctic Geological Drilling Program (ANDRILL), and many others. The purpose of this full colour textbook is to put key data and published case studies of past climate change at your fingertips, so that you can experience the nature of paleoclimate reconstruction. Using foundational geologic concepts, students explore a wide variety of topics, including: marine sediments, age determination, stable isotope paleoclimate proxies, Cenozoic climate change, climate cycles, polar climates, and abrupt warming and cooling events, students are invited to evaluate published scientific data, practice developing and testing hypotheses, and infer the broader implications of scientific results. It is our philosophy that addressing how we know is as important as addressing what we know about past climate change. Making climate change science accessible is the goal of this book. This book is intended for earth science students at a variety of levels studying paleoclimatology, oceanography, Quaternary science, or earth-system science."--Provided by publisher.

Reconstructing Earth's Climate History: Inquiry-Based Exercises for Lab and Class; Contents; The Authors; List of Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Preface; Book Introduction for Students and Instructors; Geologic Timescale; Chapter 1: Introduction to Paleoclimate Records; Part 1.1. Archives and Proxies; Part 1.2. Owens Lake -- An Introductory Case Study of Paleoclimate Reconstruction; Part 1.3. Coring Glacial Ice and Seafloor Sediments; Chapter 2: Seafloor Sediments; Part 2.1. Sediment Predictions; Part 2.2. Core Observations and Descriptions; Part 2.3. Sediment Composition.

Part 2.4. Geographic Distribution and InterpretationChapter 3: Microfossils and Biostratigraphy; Part 3.1. What are Microfossils? Why are they Important in Climate Change Science?; Part 3.2. Microfossils in Deep-Sea Sediments; Part 3.3. Application of Microfossil First and Last Occurrences; Part 3.4. Using Microfossil Datum Levels to Calculate Sedimentation Rates; Part 3.5. How Reliable are Microfossil Datum Levels?; Chapter 4: Paleomagnetism and Magnetostratigraphy; Part 4.1. Earth's Magnetic Field Today and the Paleomagnetic Record of Deep-Sea Sediments.

Part 4.2. Paleomagnetism in Ocean CrustPart …