TY - BOOK
T1 - Climate, Fire and Human Evolution. The Deep Time Dimensions of the Athropocene
AU - Glikson, Andrew
AU - Groves, Colin
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - The book outlines principal milestones in the evolution of the atmosphere, oceans and biosphere during the last 4 million years in relation with the evolution from primates to the genus Homo - which uniquely mastered the ignition and transfer of fire. Further to burning a large part of the forests, the discovery of combustion and exhumation of carbon from the Earth's hundreds of millions of years-old fossil biospheres set the stage for an anthropogenic oxidation event, effecting an abrupt shift in the state of the atmosphere-ocean-cryosphere systems. The consequent ongoing extinction equals the past five great mass extinctions of species - constituting a geological event horizon in the history of planet Earth.
AB - The book outlines principal milestones in the evolution of the atmosphere, oceans and biosphere during the last 4 million years in relation with the evolution from primates to the genus Homo - which uniquely mastered the ignition and transfer of fire. Further to burning a large part of the forests, the discovery of combustion and exhumation of carbon from the Earth's hundreds of millions of years-old fossil biospheres set the stage for an anthropogenic oxidation event, effecting an abrupt shift in the state of the atmosphere-ocean-cryosphere systems. The consequent ongoing extinction equals the past five great mass extinctions of species - constituting a geological event horizon in the history of planet Earth.
M3 - Book
SN - 9783319225111
VL - 1
T3 - Modern Approaches in Solid Earth Sciences
BT - Climate, Fire and Human Evolution. The Deep Time Dimensions of the Athropocene
PB - Springer International Publishing Switzerland
CY - Cham, Switzerland
ER -