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Lecture Notes

Note: Some of the illustrative figures from other sources are absent due to copyright restrictions. Sources for the missing figures are cited whenever possible.

LEC # TOPICS
1 Major Paleoceanographic and Paleoclimatic Events of the Past 2 Million Years (PDF)
2 Oxygen Isotope Paleoclimatology (PDF)
3 Oxygen Isotope Paleothermometry (PDF)
4 Sea-Level and Climate Change: Coral Reefs on Stable and Emerging Islands; Carbon-14, Th-230, and Paleomagnetic Geochronology; Global Viscoelastic Models (PDF)
5 Glacial/Interglacial 'Oscillations': Why? Time-series Analysis (PDF)
6 Ice Core Evidence for Climate Change (PDF)
7 Deep-ocean Paleoceanography and Ocean Chemistry: Links to Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide and 14C/12C (PDF)
8 Lifestyles of the Small and Calcareous (PDF)
9 Atmospheric CO2, Ocean Chemistry, and Mechanisms of Climate Change (PDF - 1.1 MB)
10 Continental Evidence for Glacial Climate Change (PDF)
11 Coral Evidence for Temperature, Salinity, and Nutrient Changes (PDF)
12 Newer Tracers (PDF)
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13b
Abrupt Climate Change: the View from Ocean Sediments (PDF)

Meltwater Pulses, Mediterranean Sapropels, Paleo-winds (PDF)
14 Introduction to Cenzoic Palenoceanography (PDF)
15 Climatology of Glaciation (PDF)