Antarctica is the center from which all surrounding continental bodies separated millions of years ago. Antarctica: A Keystone in a Changing World, reinforces the importance of continual changes in the country's history and the impact of these changes on global systems. The book also places emphasis on deciphering the climate records in ice cores, geologic cores, rock outcrops and those inferred from climate models. New technologies for the coming decades of geoscience data collection are also highlighted. Antarctica: A Keystone in a Changing World is a collection of papers that were presented by keynote speakers at the 10th International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences. It is of interest to policy makers, researchers and scientific institutions.


Table of Contents


Front Matter
Summary and Highlights of the 10th International Symposium on
Antarctic Earth Sciences--T. J. Wilson, R. E. Bell, P. Fitzgerald,
S. B. Mukasa, R. D. Powell, and C. Finn
Antarctic Earth System Science in the International Polar Year
2007-2008--R. E. Bell
100 Million Years of Antarctic Climate Evolution: Evidence from
Fossil Plants--J. E. Francis, A. Ashworth, D. J. Cantrill, J. A.
Crame, J. Howe, R. Stephens, A.-M. Tosolini, and V. Thorn
Antarctica's Continent-Ocean Transitions: Consequences for Tectonic
Reconstructions--K. Gohl
Landscape Evolution of Antarctica--S. S. R. Jamieson and D. E.
Sugden
A View of Antarctic Ice-Sheet Evolution from Sea-Level and Deep-Sea
Isotope Changes During the Late Cretaceous-Cenozoic--K. G. Miller,
J. D. Wright, M. E. Katz, J. V. Browning, B. S. Cramer, B. S. Wade,
and S. F. Mizintseva
Late Cenozoic Climate History of the Ross Embayment from the AND-1B
Drill Hole: Culmination of Three Decades of Antarctic Margin
Drilling--T. R. Naish, R. D. Powell, P. J. Barrett, R. H. Levy, S.
Henrys, G. S. Wilson, L. A. Krissek, F. Niessen, M. Pompilio, J.
Ross, R. Scherer, F. Talarico, A. Pyne, and the ANDRILL-MIS Science
team
A Pan-Precambrian Link Between Deglaciation and Environmental
Oxidation--T. D. Raub and J. L. Kirschvink
Tectonics of the West Antarctic Rift System: New Light on the
History and Dynamics of Distributed Intracontinental Extension--C.
S. Siddoway
The Significance of Antarctica for Studies of Global
Geodynamics--R. Sutherland
Antarctica and Global Paleogeography: From Rodinia, Through
Gondwanaland and Pangea, to the Birth of the Southern Ocean and the
Opening of Gateways--T. H. Torsvik, C. Gaina, and T. F. Redfield
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