This book aims to provide an overview of the relations between climate, surface processes, and Earth history is given. It is unique in giving an up-to-date synthesis of the role of climate in the development of Earth surface systems. After introducing the concept of world climate, the book explores the chief components of the biosphere - air, water and ice, sediments, landforms and soils, animals and plants, biomes and zonobiomes - in relation to climate factors. The reader will find a new view of the interplay between astronomical variables, the Earth's atmosphere, and biotic and abiotic systems at the surface of the Earth.
--This text refers to an alternate
Hardcover
edition.
