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The worst of times : how life on Earth survived eighty million years of extinctions /

260 million years ago, life on Earth suffered wave after wave of cataclysmic extinctions, with the worst--the end-Permian extinction--wiping out nearly every species on the planet. This book delves into the mystery behind these extinctions and sheds light on the fateful role the primeval supercontin...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wignall, P. B. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, [2015]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A time of dying
  • Extinction in the shadows
  • The killing seas
  • Troubled times in the Triassic
  • Triassic downfall
  • Pangea's final blow
  • Pangea's death and the rise of resilience.