The Plutocene: Blueprints for a Post-Anthropocene Greenhouse Earth
This book presents projections and blueprints of the future geologic period, climate and biosphere, based on our current understanding of the Earth’s history and recent developments in the atmosphere-ocean-cryosphere system. By the second decade of the 21
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Andrew Yoram Glikson
The Plutocene: Blueprints for a PostAnthropocene Greenhouse Earth
Modern Approaches in Solid Earth Sciences Volume 13
Series Editors Yildirim Dilek, Department of Geology and Environmental Earth Sciences, Miami University, Oxford, OH, U.S.A Franco Pirajno, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia Brian Windley, Department of Geology, The University of Leicester, UK
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Andrew Yoram Glikson
The Plutocene: Blueprints for a Post-Anthropocene Greenhouse Earth
The Plutocene is a geological period named after the element Plutonium (Pu) whose radioactive alpha emitting isotope 239Pu of half-life of 24,100 years form a geological marker recording radioactive events.
Andrew Yoram Glikson School of Archaeology and Anthropology Australian National University Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia Responsible Series Editor: F. Pirajno
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