ISBN10: 3443010881, ISBN13: 9783443010881, [publisher: Borntraeger Gebrueder Sep 2015] Hardcover Neuware - This is the English translation (and German facsimile) of Wladimir Köppen and Alfred Wegener (1924): The Climates of the Geological Past (Die Klimate der geologischen Vorzeit), a landmark text of early paleoclimatological research, actually a textbook of paleoclimatology. Wegener is best known for his theory of continental drift (The Origin of the Continents and Oceans, 1915). Less widely known, but equally important, are the studies he conducted on the climates of the past (with his colleague and father-in-law, Wladimir Köppen), which they jointly published (this book). Only one edition of the book was published, but unfortunately, all - save a few private copies - were destroyed during the second World War, rendering the book essentially unavailable. This English translation makes Köppen and Wegener's landmark text accessible to the international climate research community. It also includes the Supplements and Corrections by Wladimir Köppen to this book, published in 1940, shortly before his death and a decade after Alfred Wegener's untimely death on Greenland. The translation (and the facsimile) have both been enhanced by subject indices, which the original book was lacking. The discussion of the course and causal relationship of climates and climate change in the geological past are of principal scientific interest. Important elements of the ...
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Borntraeger Gebrueder, Date: 2015. Hardcover. New. 9.13x6.57x1.11 inches. 2015. Borntraeger Gebrueder ISBN 3443010881 9783443010881 [GB]

Borntraeger Gebrueder 2015 Hardcover New 9.13x6.57x1.11 inches.