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Chapter 6 frontispiece.
Bubbles in ice
recovered by drilling
from deep within the
Greenland Ice Sheet
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of Global Warming and Our Energy Future,
Columbia University Press. Photograph by D.
Dahl-Jensen, University of Copenhagen
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Figure 6.1. The
record of the
Paleocene-Eocene
Thermal Maximum in
a deep-sea sediment
core
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Global Warming and Our Energy Future, Columbia
University Press. Source: Zachos et al., 2005
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Figure 6.2. Louis Agassiz
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and Our Energy Future, Columbia University Press. Source: South
Caroliniana Library, University of South Carolina
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Figure 6.3. Variations in the oxygen isotopic ratio with depth of
benthic foraminifera in two sediment cores from the equatorial
eastern Pacific Ocean
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Our Energy Future, Columbia University Press. Source: Mix et al., 1994
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(a)
(b)
Figure 6.4. The Milankovitch cycles
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Future, Columbia University Press. Source: R. Rohde, Global Warming Art
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Figure 6.5. The 800,000-year record of atmospheric CO2
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Our Energy Future, Columbia University Press. Source: Lüthi et al., 2008
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Figure 6.6. The location of
Greenland Ice Sheet drill sites
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Warming and Our Energy Future, Columbia University Press.
Source: Geological Survey of Greenland
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Figure 6.7. A Greenland ice core
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and Our Energy Future, Columbia University Press. Source: NOAA
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Figure 6.8. The record of temperature in the Greenland ice cores
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Energy Future, Columbia University Press. Data from Mayewski et al., 1997
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Figure 6.9. The record of major volcanic eruptions in the
Greenland ice cores
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Energy Future, Columbia University Press. Data from Zielinski et al., 1994
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Figure 6.10. The record of the Younger Dryas in the Greenland ice cores
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Energy Future, Columbia University Press. Data from Mayewski and Bender, 1995
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Figure 6.11. The correlation of Antarctic EDML and
Greenland NGRIP ice cores
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Future, Columbia University Press. Source: EPICA Community Members, 2006
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Figure 6.12. Cross section of a tree trunk being prepared
for exhibition
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Figure 6.13. Varves exposed on the campus of the University of
Massachusetts, Amherst
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Columbia University Press. Photograph by J. Beckett, American Museum of Natural History
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Figure 6.14. Coral
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and Our Energy Future, Columbia University Press. Photograph by
D. Finnin, American Museum of Natural History
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Figure 6.15. A 1,200-year reconstruction of Northern Hemisphere
temperatures relative to the 1961-1990 mean
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Future, Columbia University Press. Source: D’Arrigo, Wilson and Jacoby, 2006