Greenhouse of the dinosaurs : evolution, extinction, and the future of our planet /

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"Donald Prothero links the climate changes that have occurred over the past 200 million years to their effects on plants and animals. In particular, he contrasts the extinctions that ended the Cretaceous period, which wiped out the dinosaurs, with those of the later Eocene and Oligocene epochs....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Prothero, Donald R. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, 2009.
Temas:
Dinosaurs > Extinction.
Climatic changes.
Geology > United States.
Paleontology > United States.
Dinosaures > Extinction.
Climat > Changements.
Paléontologie > États-Unis.
climate change.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Evolution.
SCIENCE > Paleontology.
Climatic changes
Dinosaurs > Extinction
Geology
Paleontology
Aussterben
Palökologie
Dinosaurier
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Greenhouse of the dinosaurs
  • Bad lands, good fossils
  • Magnets and lasers
  • "Punk eek" in the badlands
  • Death of the dinosaurs
  • Marine world
  • Rocky mountain jungles and eel's ears
  • From greenhouse to icehouse
  • Once and future greenhouse?
  • Kids, dinosaurs, and the future of paleontology.

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