Ice Ages and Interglacials

This book provides a detailed review of terminations of ice ages including a very attractive theory based on dust deposits on ice sheets. While other books on ice ages are mostly short popular and non-technical the only book that attempts to deal with the broad issues of what we know about past ice ages and why they occur is the book by Muller and MacDonald (M&M) published by Praxis. However despite its many good features this book suffers from an inordinate emphasis on spectral analysis a lack of coverage of new data and a very confusing sequence of chapters. As a result the data and theory are so intimately entwined that it is difficult to separate one from the other. This volume provides an independent and comprehensive summary of the latest data theories and analysis. This third edition of what has become the premier reference and sourcebook on ice ages addresses recent topics and includes new references new data and a totally new greatly expanded treatment of terminations of ice ages.