Tectonic Boundary Conditions for Climate Reconstructions

by Crowley, Thomas J.; Burke, Kevin C.

• ISBN13: 9780195112450
• ISBN10: 0195112458
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-12-03
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

In recent years there has been a movement to break down old disciplinary boundaries in the geosciences to develop a more unified view of the earth as an integrated system, but efforts to integrate solid earth and climate studies have not progressed as rapidly as other areas. Responding to this deficiency, this volume provides an in-depth examination of climate modeling--an area which can benefit enormously from the interaction between solid earth geophysical studies and climate studies. Written by eminent figures from both disciplines, this volume focuses on the role of tectonic boundary conditions for paleoclimate reconstructions. Chapters present background material on the impact of tectonic changes on climate, as well as the uncertainties in tectonic boundary conditions, such as positions of continents, height of mountains, depth of sea floor, among others.

Table of Contents

Contributors	ix
I. INTRODUCTION	3	(18)
1. Significance of tectonic boundary conditions for paleoclimate simulations	3	(18)
Thomas J. Crowley
II. ROLE OF CONTINENTAL CONFIGURATION	21	(18)
2. The role of geography and atmospheric CO(2) in long-term climate change: Results from model simulations for the Late Permian to the Present	21	(18)
Peter J. Fawcett
Eric J. Barron
III. ROLE OF CONTINENTAL ELEVATION	39	(108)
3. Orographic evolution of the Himalaya and Tibetan Plateau	39	(34)
T. Mark Harrison
An Yin
F.J. Ryerson
4. Topographic history of the Western Cordillera of North America and controls on climate	73	(27)
Clement G. Chase
Kathryn M. Gregory-Wodzicki
Judith T. Parrish
Peter G. DeCelles
5. Effects of tropical mountain elevations on the climate of the Late Carboniferous: Climate model simulations	100	(16)
Bette L. Otto-Bliesner
6. The role of mountains and plateaus in a Triassic climate model	116	(31)
William W. Hay
Christopher N. Wold
IV. ROLE OF EPEIRIC SEAS	147	(22)
7. The vanishing record of epeiric seas, with emphasis on the late Cretaceous "Hudson Seaway"	147	(22)
Alfred M. Ziegler
David B. Rowley
V. ROLE OF OCEAN GATEWAYS	169	(58)
8. Caribbean constraints on circulation between Atlantic and Pacific Oceans over the past 40 million years	169	(23)
Andre W. Droxler
Kevin Burke
Andrew D. Cunningham
Albert C. Hine
Eric Rosencrantz
David S. Duncan
Pamela Hallock
Edward Robinson
9. The role of the Greenland-Scotland ridge in Neogene climate changes	192	(20)
James D. Wright
10. Opening of Drake Passage and its impact on Cenozoic ocean circulation	212	(15)
Lawrence A. Lawver
Lisa M. Gahagan
VI. ROLE OF BATHYMETRY	227	(24)
11. Reconstruction of realistic Early Eocene paleobathymetry and ocean GCM sensitivity to specified basin configuration	227	(24)
Karen L. Bice
Eric J. Barron
William H. Peterson
VII. TECTONICS AND CO(2)	251	(26)
12. Sensitivity of Phanerozoic atmospheric CO(2) to paleogeographically induced changes in land temperature and runoff	251	(10)
Robert A. Berner
13. The transition from arc volcanism to exhumation, weathering of young Ca, Mg, Sr silicates, and CO(2) drawdown	261	(16)
Douglas N. Reusch
Kirk A. Maasch
Index	277