Ice Ages: Solving the Mystery

Front Matter....Pages 1-10
Prologue: The Forgotten Ice Age....Pages 11-15
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
Louis Agassiz and the Glacial Theory....Pages 19-31
The Triumph of the Glacial Theory....Pages 33-46
Exploring the Ice-Age World....Pages 47-57
Front Matter....Pages 59-59
The Ice-Age Problem....Pages 61-68
Birth of the Astronomical Theory....Pages 69-75
The Astronomical Theory of James Croll....Pages 77-88
Debate Over Croll’s Theory....Pages 89-96
Through Distant Worlds and Times....Pages 97-111
The Milankovitch Controversy....Pages 113-122
The Deep and the Past....Pages 123-133
Pleistocene Temperatures....Pages 135-140
Milankovitch Revival....Pages 141-146
Signal from the Earth....Pages 147-152
Pulsebeat of Climate....Pages 153-159
Pacemaker of the Ice Ages....Pages 161-173
Front Matter....Pages 175-175
The Coming Ice Age....Pages 177-187
Epilogue: The Last Billion Years of Climate....Pages 189-191
Back Matter....Pages 193-224