Guia docente 2016_17 Facultade de Ciencias do Mar

Contents

Topic	Sub-topic
1. Climatic variations in the Earth history	Spatio-temporal characteristics ot the forcings, phenomena and interactions.
2. Palaeoclimatic and palaeoceanographic archives	Ice cores, varved sediments, speleothemes, tree rings.
3. Geochronology of the palaeoclimatic and palaeoceanographic records.	Absolute datings, isotope scales, astronomical scales, ,magnetic scales and micropaleontology
4. Palaeoclimatic proxies in the oceans	Based and non-based in nutrients
5. Plate tectonics and climate	Episodes of glaciacions and extreme warmings. The big Cretaceous warming
6. Orbital forcings and the glaciar rhythms	The Pleistocene.
7. The abrupt climatic changes	Mechanisms. Human impact during the Holocene
Practical contents: Interpretation of sedimentological, geochemical and geophysical records in sedimentary oceanic cores.