Cataclysms : a new geology for the twenty-first century / Michael R. Rampino.
Rampino, Michael R., author.
2017
GB5014 .R355 2017eb
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Title Cataclysms : a new geology for the twenty-first century / Michael R. Rampino.
Author Rampino, Michael R., author.
ISBN 9780231544870 (electronic book)
0231544871 (electronic book)
9780231177801
DOI https://doi.org/10.7312/ramp17780
Published New York : Columbia University Press, [2017]
Language English
Description 1 online resource (vi, 211 pages) : illustrations, maps
Item Number 10.7312/ramp17780 doi
Call Number GB5014 .R355 2017eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 551
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Introduction
Catastrophism versus gradualism
Lyell's laws
The Alvarez hypothesis
Mass extinctions
Kill curves and strangelove oceans
Catastrophism and natural selection
Impacts and extinctions : do they match up?
The great dying : the end-Permian extinction
Catastrophic volcanic eruptions and extinctions
Ancient glaciers and impact deposits
The Shiva hypothesis : comet showers and the galactic carrousel
Geological upheavals and dark matter
Epilogue : what does it all mean? : a new geology.

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