Description: Tropical Arctic : Lost Plants, Future Climates, and the Discovery of Ancient Greenland, Hardcover by McElwain, Jennifer C.; Donnelly, Marlene Hill; Glasspool, Ian J., ISBN 022653443X, ISBN-13 9780226534435, Brand New, Free shipping in the US An illustrated visit to the tropical arctic of 205 million years ago when Greenland was green.
While today’s Greenland is largely covered in ice, in the time of the dinosaurs the area was a lushly forested, tropical zone. Tropical Arctic tracks a ten-million-year window of Earth’s history when global temperatures soared and the vegetation of the world responded.
A project over eighteen years in the making, Tropical Arctic is the result of a unique collaboration between two paleobotanists, Jennifer C. McElwain and Ian J. Glasspool, and award-winning scientific illustrator Marlene Hill Donnelly. They began with a simple question: “What was the color of a fossilized leaf?” Tropical Arctic answers that question and more, allowing readers to experience Triassic Greenland through three reconstructed landscapes and an expertly researched catalog of extinct plants. A stunning compilation of paint and pencil art, photos, maps, and engineered fossil models, Tropical Arctic blends art and science to bring a lost world to life. Readers will also enjoy a front-row seat to the scientific adventures of life in the field, with engaging anecdotes about analyzing fossils and learning to ward off polar bear attacks.
Tropical Arctic explains our planet’s story of environmental upheaval, mass extinction, and resilience. By looking at Earth’s past, we see a glimpse of the future of our warming planet—and learn an important lesson for our time of climate change.
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Book Title: Tropical Arctic : Lost Plants, Future Climates, and the Discovery of Ancient Greenland
Number of Pages: 152 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Topic: Life Sciences / Botany, Earth Sciences / Geology, Global Warming & Climate Change, Paleontology
Publication Year: 2021
Item Height: 0.7 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Science
Item Weight: 26.5 Oz
Author: Marlene Hill Donnelly, Ian Glasspool, Jennifer Mcelwain
Item Length: 10.2 in
Item Width: 8.3 in
Format: Hardcover
