Mass Extinction

P. David Polly Department of Geological Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA, pdpolly@indiana.edu Only 200 years ago, extinction was a radical new idea. Fossils were known, but their identity as the remains of species that no longer lived on the face of the Earth was not yet firm...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Elewa, Ashraf M.T (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2008.
Edition:1st ed. 2008.
Subjects:
Paleontology .
Geology.
Biogeography.
Paleontology.
Biogeosciences.
Online Access:Texto Completo
Table of Contents:
  • Mass Extinction - a general view
  • Late Ordovician mass extinction
  • The End Ordovician; an ice age in the middle of a greenhouse
  • Silurian global events - at the tipping point of climate change
  • Late Devonian mass extinction
  • Late Permian mass extinction
  • Late Triassic mass extinction
  • Reexamination of the end-Triassic mass
  • Cenomanian/Turonian mass extinction of macroinvertebrates in the context of Paleoecology; A case study from North Wadi Qena, Eastern Desert, Egypt
  • K-Pg mass extinction
  • Causes of mass extinction at the K/Pg boundary: A case study from the North African Plate
  • Patterns and causes of mass extinction at the K/Pg boundary: Planktonic foraminifera from the North African Plate
  • Quaternary extinctions in Southeast Asia
  • Current mass extinction
  • Current insect extinctions.

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