Palaeoclimatology is the study of climates in the Earth's past.
Keywords: palaeoclimatology; sedimentary rocks; fossils; geochemistry
Palaeoclimatology
Judith Totman Parrish, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA
Published online: April 2001
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0001634
| Further Reading | |
| book Bradley RS (1999) Palaeoclimatology: Reconstructing Climates of the Quaternary. London: Academic Press. | |
| Mutti M and Weissert H (1995) Triassic monsoonal climate and its signature in Ladinian-Carnian carbonate platforms (southern Alps, Italy). Journal of Sedimentary Research B65: 357–367. | |
| book Parrish JT (1998) Interpreting Pre-Quaternary Palaeoclimate from the Geologic Record. New York: Columbia University Press. | |
| book Spaulding WG (1990) "Vegetational and climatic development of the Mojave Desert: The Last Glacial Maximum to the present". In: Betancourt JL, Van Devender TR and Martin PS (eds) Packrat Middens, pp. 166–199. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. | |
| Wolfe JA (1995) Palaeoclimatic estimates from Tertiary leaf assemblages. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 23: 119–142. | |
