This book tells the exciting story of the ice ages--what they were
like, why they occurred, and when the next one is due. The solution
to the ice age mystery originated when the National Science
Foundation organized the CLIMAP project to study changes in the
earth's climate over the past 700,000 years. One of the goals was
to produce a map of the earth during the last ice age. Scientists
examined cores of sediment from the Indian Ocean bed and deciphered
a continuous history for the past 500,000 years. Their work
ultimately confirmed the theory that the earth's irregular orbital
motions account for the bizarre climatic changes which bring on ice
ages.
This is a tale of scientific discovery and the colorful people
who participated: Louis Agassiz, the young Swiss naturalist whose
geological studies first convinced scientists that the earth has
recently passed through an ice age; the Reverend William Buckland,
an eccentric but respected Oxford professor who fought so hard
against the ice-age theory before accepting it; James Croll, a
Scots mechanic who educated himself as a scientist and first
formulated the astronomic theory of ice ages; Milutin Milankovitch,
the Serbian mathematician who gave the astronomic theory its firm
quantitative foundation; and the many other astronomers,
geochemists, geologists, paleontologists, and geophysicists who
have been engaged for nearly a century and a half in the pressing
search for a solution to the ice-age mystery.
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