Mass Extinctions and Their AftermathOxford University Press, UK, 11 сент. 1997 г. - Всего страниц: 328 The first book to review all the evidence concerning both the dinosaur extinctions and all the other major extinctions - of plant, animal, terrestrial, and marine life - in the history of life. All the extinction mechanisms are critically assessed, including meteorite impact, anoxia, and volcanism. - ;Why do mass extinctions occur? The demise of the dinosaurs has been discussed exhaustively, but has never been out into the context of other extinction events. This is the first systematic review of the mass extinctions of all organisms, plant and animal, terrestrial and marine, that have occurred in the history of life. This includes the major crisis 250 million years ago which nearly wiped out all life on Earth. By examining current paleontological, geological, and sedimentological evidence of environmental changes, the cases for explanations based on climate change, marine regressions, asteroid or comet impact, anoxia, and volcanic eruptions are all critically evaluated. - |
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The study of mass extinctions | 1 |
Extinctions in the early history of the Metazoa | 24 |
Late Early Cambrian extinctions | 31 |
one disaster after another | 39 |
the Kellwasser | 62 |
Sealevel changes and glaciation | 78 |
Palaeozoic nemesis | 94 |
Extinctions within and at the close of the Triassic | 142 |
Minor extinctions of the Jurassic | 161 |
Minor mass extinctions of the marine Cretaceous | 170 |
Death at the CretaceousTertiary boundary | 184 |
Cenozoic extinctions | 223 |
The causes of mass extinctions | 242 |
References | 253 |
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