John Imbrie

John Imbrie is an oceanographer and geologist. This book is mentioned as source material in later studies on the same subject, namely when will the next ice-age begin? Like lots of books on glaciation, this one starts with a history of man's knowledge or awareness of the ice-ages and how gradually that knowledge has become a science tied to the earth's history and the earth's relationship to the Sun, to the Galaxy and to, perhaps, forces unknown. The science of glaciation is open to much interpertation of past events and exactly when certain ice events took place. Using various markers that are available in present strata some scientist see the past in conflicting light. There is much that is not known about glaciation but this book does offer an overview, and does leave one in no doubt that the next ice-age has most likely already begun. For those interested in the subject, this book is a good place to get your overview of the state of current ice-age knowledge even though it was written
30 years ago.… (mehr)