Includes bibliographical references (p. 469-545) and index.
Contemporary issues in climate change: the role of paleoclimatology -- Principles of paleoclimatology -- Vital effects: biological aspects of paleoclimatology -- Orbital climate change -- Millennial scale climate change -- Holocene centennial and decadal climatic variability -- Interannual climate change in the tropics: ENSO -- Sea-level change -- Paleo-atmospheres: the ice-core record of climate change.
Perspectives in paleobiology and earth history series