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A significant advance in climatological scholarship, Tectonic Uplift and Climate Change is a multidisciplinary effort to summarize the current status of a new theory steadily gaining acceptance in geoscience circles: that long-term cooling and glaciation are controlled by plateau and mountain uplift. Researchers in many diverse fields, from geology to paleobotany, present data that substantiate this hypothesis. The volume covers most of the key, dramatic transformations of the Earth´s surface.

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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°30¨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 &dgr;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. Index.

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William F. Ruddiman is retired from the University of Virginia, USA and has since concentrated his research on the climatic role farmers played during the last several thousand years by clearing land, raising livestock, and irrigating rice padis. Over the course of his career, Ruddiman has explored several different aspects of the field of paleoclimate - from orbital-scale changes in North Atlantic sediment to the cause of long-term cooling over the last 50 million years. He has written trade books and numerous journal articles.

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