Mass Extinctions and Their Aftermath
This is the first review of all the major mass extinctions in the history of life. It covers all groups of organisms - plant, animal, terrestrial, and marine - that have gone extinct alongside the geological and sedimentological evidence for environmental changes during the biotic crises. All proposed extinction mechanisms - climate change, meteorite impact, volcanisms - are critically assessed. The demise of the dinosaurs has been amply discussed, but this is the first time that this event has been put into the proper context of other extinction events.
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Mass Extinctions and Their Aftermath
This is the first review of all the major mass extinctions in the history of life. It covers all groups of organisms - plant, animal, terrestrial, and marine - that have gone extinct alongside the geological and sedimentological evidence for environmental changes during the biotic crises. All proposed extinction mechanisms - climate change, meteorite impact, volcanisms - are critically assessed. The demise of the dinosaurs has been amply discussed, but this is the first time that this event has been put into the proper context of other extinction events.
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Mass Extinctions and Their Aftermath

Mass Extinctions and Their Aftermath

Mass Extinctions and Their Aftermath

Mass Extinctions and Their Aftermath

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This is the first review of all the major mass extinctions in the history of life. It covers all groups of organisms - plant, animal, terrestrial, and marine - that have gone extinct alongside the geological and sedimentological evidence for environmental changes during the biotic crises. All proposed extinction mechanisms - climate change, meteorite impact, volcanisms - are critically assessed. The demise of the dinosaurs has been amply discussed, but this is the first time that this event has been put into the proper context of other extinction events.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780198549161
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 12/04/1997
Series: Cambridge Texts in Hist.of Philosophy
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 328
Product dimensions: 9.30(w) x 6.60(h) x 0.80(d)

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University of Birmingham

University of Leeds

Table of Contents

1. The Study of Mass Extinctions2. Extinctions in the Early History of Metazoa3. Latest Ordovician Extinctions: One Disaster After Another4. Crises of the Late Devonian: the Kellwasser and Hangenberg Events5. Palaeozoic Nemesis6. Extinctions Within and at the Close of the Triassic7. Minor Extinctions of the Jurassic8. Minor Mass Extinctions of the Marine Cretaceous9. Death at the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary10. Cenozoic Extinctions11. The Causes of Mass Extinctions
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