GLY 102 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Micropaleontology, Loess, Axial Tilt

• School: University at Buffalo
• Department: Geology
• Course: GLY 102
• Professor: Jason Briner

Document Summary

Geology 102 climate change study guide for exam #2. Ocean currents, surface currents, deep (vertical) currents, primary controls on each. Enso cycles, el ni o, la ni a (understand first principles of this, think bagel toaster) Human timescale forcing: greenhouse gasses, aerosols, ozone, albedo (land use), the sun (sunspot cycles), single volcanic eruptions (natural aerosols) Millennial timescales: earth"s orbit around the sun. Geologic timescales: plate tectonics (arrangement of continents, albedo) and (co2 from periods of intense and repeated volcanism) The beginnings, camp century and project iceworm. What ice cores record: temperature (know the basics of the oxygen and hydrogen isotope proxy for temperature), greenhouse gasses, melt layers. Know the basics of the co2 history of earth, current co2 levels, oscillating levels of co2 in the. Ocean sediment records, the 18-o proxy from microfossil forams. What is it a proxy of, and how does it work.