Cataclysms : a new geology for the twenty-first century /

In 1980, the science world was stunned when a maverick team of researchers proposed that a massive meteor strike had wiped the dinosaurs and other fauna from the Earth 66 million years ago. Scientists found evidence for this theory in a "crater of doom" on the Yucatán Peninsula, showing t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rampino, Michael R. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, [2017]
Temas:
Natural disasters > Environmental aspects.
Comets > Collisions with Earth.
Volcanic eruptions.
Extinction (Biology)
Volcanic Eruptions
Extinction, Biological
Catastrophes naturelles > Aspect de l'environnement.
Comètes > Collisions avec la Terre.
Éruptions volcaniques.
Extinction (Biologie)
volcanic eruptions.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Evolution.
Comets > Collisions with Earth
Natural disasters > Environmental aspects
Volcanic eruptions
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Catastrophism versus gradualism
  • Lyell's laws
  • The Alvarez hypothesis
  • Mass extinctions
  • Kill curves and strangelove oceans
  • Catastrophism and natural selection : Charles Darwin versus Patrick Matthew
  • Impacts and extinctions : do they match up?
  • The great dying : the end-Permian extinctions
  • Catastrophic volcanic eruptions and extinctions
  • Ancient glaciers or impact-related deposits?
  • The Shiva hypothesis : comet showers and the galactic carousel
  • Geological upheavals and dark matter
  • Epilogue : what does it all mean? : a new geology.

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