The Climates of the Geological Past - Die Klimate der geo...
Köppen, Wladimir / Wegener, Alfred / Thiede, Jörn / Lochte, Karin / Dummermuth, Angelika / Oelkers, Bernard
This is the English translation (and German facsimile) of Wladimir Köppen and Alfred Wegener (1924): The Climates of the Geological Past (Die Klimate der geologischen Vorzeit), a landmark text of early paleoclimatological research, actually a textbook of paleoclimatology. Wegener is best known for his theory of continental drift (The Origin of the Continents and Oceans, 1915). Less widely known, but equally important, are the studies he conduc...