Tectonic Boundary Conditions for Climate Reconstructions

'This is an interesting, wide-ranging book setting out the state-of-the0art of global climatic modelling of past climates' Geological Magazine

• Introduction ; 1. Significance of Tectonic Boundary Conditions for Paleoclimate Simulations ; I. Role of Continental Configuration ; 2. The Role of Geography and Atmospheric CO2 in Long-Term Climate Change: Results from Model Simulations for the Late Permian to the Present ; II. Continental Elevation ; 3. Orographic Evolution of the Himalaya and Tibetan Plateau ; 4. Topographic History of the Western Cordillera of North America and Controls on Climate ; 5. Effects of Tropical Mountain Elevations on the Climate of the Late Carboniferous: Climate model Simulations ; 6. The Role of Mountains and Plateaus in a Triassic Climate Model ; III. Epeiric Seas ; 7. The Vanishing Record of Epeiric Seas, With Emphasis on the Late Cretaceous 'Hudson Seaway' ; IV. Ocean Gateways ; 8. Caribbean Constraints on Circulation Between Atlantic and Pacific Oceans Over the Past 40 Million Years ; 9. The Role of the Greenland-Scotland Ridge in Neogene Climate Changes ; 10. Opening of Drake Passage and its Impact on Cenozoic Ocean Circulation ; V. Bathymetry ; 11. Reconstruction of Realistic Early Eocene Palaeobathymetry and Ocean GCM Sensitivity Basin Configuration ; VI. Tectonics and CO2 ; 12 ; 13. The Transition from Arc Volcanism to Exhumation, Weathering of Young Ca, Mg, St Silicates, and Co 2 Drawdown