CLIMATE THROUGH THE AGES

C. E. P. BROOKS I.S.O., D.Sc.j F.R.Met.Soc.

Penerbit : ERNEST BENN LIMITED, LONDON

Tahun : 1949

"SOME years ago I had the privilege of laying before the public “ The Evolution of Climate.” As its title implies, that book mainly consists of an account of the variations of climate during geological times, and it deals especially with the Quaternary Ice-Age and the Post-glacial period. The causes of the events described were touched on only very briefly, and chiefly for the purpose of emphasising the climatic importance of the period of continental emergence which intervened between the mild climates of the Mesozoic and Tertiary periods and the beginnings of the Ice-Age. It was my intention then to write a companion volume dealing with the mechanism of climatic changes and drawing on the first volume for illustrations. But there were many problems requiring further investigation and much reading to be done before such a work could be approached with any confidence, and so for several years desire outran performance. Then came the work of Wegener on the theory of continental drift, and of Koppen and Wegener on the interpretation of the climatic record in terms of the travels of the continents across the parallels of latitude, and this stimulated me to complete the investigation in order to examine Wegener’s theory from the climatic side."

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