The Neogene Earth (Earth and Environmental Sciences Library)

Ghosh, Amit K.EDT/ Kapur, Vivesh VirEDT/ Roy, LopamudraEDT

Springer, Berlin; Springer（2026/08発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版
• 商品コード 9783032222800

Full Description

This book not only serves the researchers for future studies but also an important textbook for the graduate and post graduate students who are keen in pursuing their career in past climate research and climate modelling.

There is an increased concern within the international scientific community regarding the global climatic variability in the present day Earth. This has simulated the scientists dealing with different aspects of climate research. In this context, the reconstruction of past climate is a useful tool for the prediction of future climatic changes because for better understanding of the future, a critical observation of the past is needed. Instrumental records of the climate are available for the last few centuries but not on a geological scale. Sediments deposited on the Earth archive different signatures in the form of different proxies namely geological features, fossils (both micro and macro), traces, geochemical parameters, etc. and these are useful to interpret past environment and climatic changes. In having the present scenario of global warming, it is highly important that we should interpret the past climatic events for better prediction of the future climate. If we consider the future climate projections is true, the climate of the Neogene Period can be one of the best analogues. During the Miocene Epoch of the Neogene Period, several major important climatic events took place, e.g. the Miocene Climatic Optimum (MCO), the beginning of the Arctic glaciations, the Messinian Salinity Crisis. During the youngest epoch of the Neogene, i.e. in the Pliocene, a global warming event also occurred, preceding the beginning of the Ice Age. All these events induced changes in the Neogene climate that impacted the biodiversity (both flora and fauna) of terrestrial and marine realms.

Contents

The Neogene climate and oceanography:understanding from microfossil records.- Stable Oxygen and Carbon Isotope study of early Miocene (Burdigalian) and modern mollusc shells from the Quilon Formation, Kerala, southwest India Climatic implications.- Diatoms, an important tool for reconstruction and correlation of cold and nutrient rich Neogene marine ecosystems.- Diversity of Fabaceae in the Neogene forest of Bengal Basin and their palaeophytogeographical.- Late Neogene Quaternary paleoceanography of the Eastern Indian Ocean Planktic foraminiferal evidence.- Neogene variability in ocean circulation through Indonesian Seaway Implications on paleoclimate of the Indo-Pacific region.- The Neogene Ichnology of Western India:Role of Shallow Marine Bioturbators as Ecosystem Engineering.- Paleoecology of foraminifera from outcrops of Quilon Formation (Middle Miocene), Kerala Basin, Southern India.- Miocene gastropod diversity and paleo-community studies from the Dwarka Basin, Kathiawar Peninsula, western India.- Unveiling Palaeoenvironmental Dynamics through Palaeosol-Organism Interactions:Insights from the Early Miocene Khari Nadi Formation, Kachchh Basin, India.