# The evolution of climate

Author: Brooks, C. E. P. (Charles Ernest Pelham), 1888-1957; Simpson, G. C. (George Clarke), Sir, 1878-1965 [Author of introduction, etc.]

Genre: Category: Science - Earth/Agricultural/Farming

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/72714

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+evolution+of+climate+Brooks&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

and Chapter III deals with the Tertiary period considered as leading up to the Quaternary Ice Age. Chapter IV discusses the subdivisions of the Glacial period, and the conflict between advocates of one and of repeated glaciations. Chapters V to XII give brief accounts, _from the standpoint of a meteorologist_, of the glacial history of Northern Europe, the Mediterranean Region, Asia, North and South America, Africa, Australia, and the South Polar regions. In Chapters XIII to XV post-Glacial climatology is considered. Chapters XVI and XVII deal with the major climatic fluctuations of the “historic” period, and finally, in Chapters XVIII and XIX, is a short discussion of the influence of cl...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-evolution-of-climate-72714/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-evolution-of-climate-72714/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-evolution-of-climate-72714/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-evolution-of-climate-72714/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-evolution-of-climate-72714/chapters/19/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-evolution-of-climate-72714/chapters/21/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-evolution-of-climate-72714/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-evolution-of-climate-72714/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-evolution-of-climate-72714/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-evolution-of-climate-72714/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-evolution-of-climate-72714/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-evolution-of-climate-72714/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-evolution-of-climate-72714/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-evolution-of-climate-72714/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-evolution-of-climate-72714/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-evolution-of-climate-72714/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-evolution-of-climate-72714/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-evolution-of-climate-72714/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-evolution-of-climate-72714/chapters/20/index.md)
- [Chapter II gives a brief account of the climatic record as a whole,](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-evolution-of-climate-72714/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter XIV that even the comparatively brief warm period known as](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-evolution-of-climate-72714/chapters/14/index.md)