Catastrophes and Earth History : The New Uniformitarianism /

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This book, based on papers from a symposium at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, shows the necessity of developing a new philosophy in place of the classical uniformitarianism based only on processes familiar in human experience. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library use...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Van Couvering, John A. (Editor ), Berggren, William A. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1984.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Paleontology.
Extinction (Biology)
Catastrophes (Geology)
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Geology.
Paleontologie > Congres.
Extinction (Biologie) > Congres.
Catastrophes (Geologie) > Congres.
Paleontology > Congresses.
Extinction (Biology) > Congresses.
Catastrophes (Geology) > Congresses.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword / Berggren, W. A.
  • Introduction / Van Couvering, John A.
  • Part I. The Concept of Catastrophe as a Natural Agent
  • Chapter 1. Toward the Vindication of Punctuational Change / Gould, Stephen Jay
  • Chapter 2. Perfection, Continuity, and Common Sense in Historical Geology / Benson, Richard H.
  • Chapter 3. Reflections on the "Rare Event" and Related Concepts in Geology / Gretener, Peter E.
  • Chapter 4. The Stratigraphic Code and what it implies / Ager, Derek V.
  • Chapter 5. Statistical Sedimentation and Magnetic Polarity Stratigraphy / Denham, Charles R.
  • Part II. The Cretaceous/Tertiary Boundary: A Case in Point
  • Chapter 6. Mass Extinction: Unique or Recurrent Causes? / Newell, Norman D.
  • Chapter 7. The Two Phanerozoic Supercycles / Fischer, Alfred G.
  • Chapter 8. The Fabric of Cretaceous Marine Extinctions / Boersma, Anne
  • Chapter 10. Changes in The Angiosperm Flora Across the Cretaceoustertiary Boundary / Hickey, Leo J.
  • Chapter 11. Palynological Evidence for Change in Continental Floras at the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary / Tschudy, Robert H.
  • Chapter 12. Mammal Evolution near the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary / Archibald, J. David
  • Chapter 13. Terminal Cretaceous Extinctions Of Large Reptiles / Russell, Dale A.
  • Part III. CATASTROPHIC PROCESSES IN THE GEOLOGICAL RECORD
  • Chapter 14. Low Sea Levels, Droughts, and Mammalian Extinctions / Mörner, Nils-Axel
  • Chapter 15. Eustasy, Geoid Changes, and Multiple Geophysical Interaction / Mörner, Nils-Axel
  • Chapter 16. On two Kinds of Rapid Faunal Turnover / Webb, S. David
  • Chapter 17. The Phanerozoic "Crisis" as Viewed from the Miocene / Benson, Richard H.
  • Part IV. Catastrophes and the Real World
  • Chapter 18. Marine Mineral Resources and Uniformitarianism

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