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The book discusses the ideas and creates a framework for building toward a theory of paleoclimate. Using the rich and mounting array of observational evidence of climatic changes from geology, geochemistry, and paleontology, Saltzman offers a dynamical approach to the theory of paleoclimate... read more
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- B. Saltzman: Add a description of this character.
- J. Geophys
- Verbitsky
- Berger
- Berner
- Heinrich
- Pollard
- Peltier
- Imbrie
- Crowley
- Shackleton
- Budyko
- Broecker
- Lorenz
- Birchfield
- A. Sutera
- J. Glacial
- Moritz
- R. Oglesby
- Hughes
- Clark
- Ruddiman
- Marshall
- Kutzbach
- Manabe
- Budd
- Jenkins
- Paterson
- W. F.
First Sentence edit
The scientific enterprise proceeds in two main directions: on one hand there is a striving to amass as many raw observational facts as possible, broadening the base of phenomena to be explained, while on the other hand there is a simultaneous effort to find order in these facts by showing they are not wholly independent of one another, but are deducible and predictable, in common, from a set of statement of a relatively general and concise nature (i.e., a theory).
Authors & Contributors edit
- Barry Saltzman (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 551.6
Subjects edit
- Books › Science › Nature & Ecology › Oceans & Seas › Oceanography
- Books › Science › Earth Sciences › Rivers
- Books › Science › Earth Sciences › Geology
- Books › Outdoors & Nature › Environment › Weather
- Books › Science › Biological Sciences › Paleontology
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