Tuesday April 4th 2006
'Changing sea-levels: a geological perspective' - suggested further reading
Prof. Chris Wilson, the Open University
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Tuesday April 4th 2006 'Changing sea-levels: a geological perspective' - suggested further reading Prof. Chris Wilson, the Open University |
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The list below ranges from introductory level to quite advanced - all but the first item were sources for some of the figures that were shown during the talk. Earth Story. Simon Lang and David Sington. (1998). BBC books. ISBN 0563 38799 8. Written to accompany the excellent TV series with the same title, this colour illustrated book gives a good introduction to the geological sciences at a global scale, including ice ages and sea-floor spreading. New views on an old planet: a history of global change. Tjeerd van Andel. 2nd edition 1994. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521 44755 0. Another very readable introduction covering similar ground to Earth Story, but at a slightly higher level. Global Environmental Change. Peter D Moore, Bill Challoner and Philip Stott. 1996 (maybe there is a newer edition). Blackwell Sciences. ISBN 0 632 03638 9. Based on a University of London inter-collegiate course and covering ice ages, climate change, the carbon cycle, biological resources and some politics and economics. The Great Ice Age: climate change and life. R C L Wilson (speaker), S A Drury and J L Chapman. 2000 (reprinted 2001 but I know stocks are now very low or it may even be unavailable). Routledge. ISBN 0 415 19842 9. This book is used in an Open University third level course. It discusses the records of climate change during the last 2.5 million years, how sea-level changes are determined, theories for the onset and demise of glacial episodes, and ecological change and human origins during the Great Ice Age. I have just come across the following article: Global sea level change: Determination and interpretation. It is written for non specialists and can be found at: |
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