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Author : Christian Koeberl
Publisher : Geological Society of America
ISBN 13 : 9780813723563
Total Pages : 764 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (235 download)
Download or read book Catastrophic Events and Mass Extinctions written by Christian Koeberl and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 2002 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anthony Hallam
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192806680
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (66 download)
Download or read book Catastrophes and Lesser Calamities written by Anthony Hallam and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2005-07-14 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about the dramatic periods in the Earth's history called mass extinctions - short periods (by geological standards) when life nearly died out on Earth. The most famous is the mass extinction that happened about 65 million years ago, and that caused the death of the dinosaurs. But that was not the worst mass extinction: that honour goes to the extinction at the end of the Permian Period, about 250 million years ago, when over 90% of life is thought to have becomeextinct.What caused these catastrophes? Was it the effects of a massive meteorite impact? There is evidence for such an impact about 65 million years ago. Or was it a period of massive volcanic activity? There is evidence in the rocks of huge lava flows at periods that match several of the mass extinctions. Was it something to do with climate change and sea level? Or was it a combination of some or all of these?The question has been haunting geologists for a number of years, and it forms one of the most exciting areas of research in geology today. In this book, Tony Hallam, a distinguished geologist and writer, looks at all the different theories and also what the study of mass extinctions might tell us about the future. If climate change is a key factor, we may well, as some scientists have suggested, be in a period of mass extinction of our own making.
Author : Tony Hallam
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191578150
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Catastrophes and Lesser Calamities written by Tony Hallam and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2005-07-14 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about the dramatic periods in the Earth's history called mass extinctions - short periods (by geological standards) when life nearly died out on Earth. The most famous is the mass extinction that happened about 65 million years ago, and that caused the death of the dinosaurs. But that was not the worst mass extinction: that honour goes to the extinction at the end of the Permian Period, about 250 million years ago, when over 90% of life is thought to have become extinct. What caused these catastrophes? Was it the effects of a massive meteorite impact? There is evidence for such an impact about 65 million years ago. Or was it a period of massive volcanic activity? There is evidence in the rocks of huge lava flows at periods that match several of the mass extinctions. Was it something to do with climate change and sea level? Or was it a combination of some or all of these? The question has been haunting geologists for a number of years, and it forms one of the most exciting areas of research in geology today. In this book, Tony Hallam, a distinguished geologist and writer, looks at all the different theories and also what the study of mass extinctions might tell us about the future. If climate change is a key factor, we may well, as some scientists have suggested, be in a period of mass extinction of our own making.
Author : A. Hallam
Publisher : Oxford University Press, UK
ISBN 13 : 0191588393
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Mass Extinctions and Their Aftermath written by A. Hallam and published by Oxford University Press, UK. This book was released on 1997-09-11 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. -
Author : V. Courtillot
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521891189
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Evolutionary Catastrophes written by V. Courtillot and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-03-07 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mass extinction and cataclysmic volcanic activity: will fascinate everyone interested in the history of life and death on our planet.
Author : Michael J. Benton
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 0500773203
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (7 download)
Download or read book When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time (Revised edition) written by Michael J. Benton and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2015-08-11 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The focus is the most severe mass extinction known in earth’s history. The science on which the book is based is up-to-date, thorough, and balanced. Highly recommended.” —Choice Today it is common knowledge that the dinosaurs were wiped out by a meteorite impact 65 million years ago that killed half of all species then living. It is far less widely understood that a much greater catastrophe took place at the end of the Permian period 251 million years ago: at least ninety percent of life on earth was destroyed. When Life Nearly Died documents not only what happened during this gigantic mass extinction but also the recent renewal of the idea of catastrophism: the theory that changes in the earth’s crust were brought about suddenly in the past by phenomena that cannot be observed today. Was the end-Permian event caused by the impact of a huge meteorite or comet, or by prolonged volcanic eruption in Siberia? The evidence has been accumulating, and Michael J. Benton gives his verdict at the end of the volume. The new edition brings the study of the greatest mass extinction of all time thoroughly up-to-date. In the twelve years since the book was originally published, hundreds of geologists and paleontologists have been investigating all aspects of how life could be driven to the brink of annihilation, and especially how life recovered afterwards, providing the foundations of modern ecosystems.
Author : Elizabeth Kolbert
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 0805099794
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Sixth Extinction written by Elizabeth Kolbert and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2014-02-11 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR A major book about the future of the world, blending intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a powerful account of the mass extinction unfolding before our eyes Over the last half a billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. This time around, the cataclysm is us. In The Sixth Extinction, two-time winner of the National Magazine Award and New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert draws on the work of scores of researchers in half a dozen disciplines, accompanying many of them into the field: geologists who study deep ocean cores, botanists who follow the tree line as it climbs up the Andes, marine biologists who dive off the Great Barrier Reef. She introduces us to a dozen species, some already gone, others facing extinction, including the Panamian golden frog, staghorn coral, the great auk, and the Sumatran rhino. Through these stories, Kolbert provides a moving account of the disappearances occurring all around us and traces the evolution of extinction as concept, from its first articulation by Georges Cuvier in revolutionary Paris up through the present day. The sixth extinction is likely to be mankind's most lasting legacy; as Kolbert observes, it compels us to rethink the fundamental question of what it means to be human.
Author : David Sepkoski
Publisher : Science.Culture
ISBN 13 : 022634861X
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)
Download or read book Catastrophic Thinking written by David Sepkoski and published by Science.Culture. This book was released on 2020 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction: Why Extinction Matters -- The Meaning of Extinction: Catastrophe, Equilibrium, and Diversity -- Extinction in a Victorian Key -- Catastrophe and Modernity -- Extinction in the Shadow of the Bomb -- The Asteroid and the Dinosaur -- A Sixth Extinction? The Making of a Biodiversity Crisis -- Epilogue: Extinction in the Anthropocene.
Author : Claude Albritton
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Catastrophic Episodes in Earth History written by Claude Albritton and published by Springer. This book was released on 1989-01-26 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Year by year the Earth sciences grow more diverse, with an inevitable increase in the degree to which rampant specialization isolates the practitioners of an ever larger number of subfields. An increasing emphasis on sophisticated mathematics, physics and chemistry as well as the use of advanced technology have set up barriers often impenetrable to the uninitiated. Ironically, the potential value of many specialities for other, often non-contiguous ones has also increased. What is at the present time quiet, unseen work in a remote corner of our discipline, may tomorrow enhance, even revitalize some entirely different area. The rising flood of research reports has drastically cut the time we have available for free reading. The enormous proliferation of journals expressly aimed at small, select audiences has raised the threshold of access to a large part of the literature so much that many of us are unable to cross it. This, most would agree, is not only unfortunate but downright dangerous, limiting by sheer bulk of paper or difficulty of compre hension, the flow of information across the Earth sciences because, after all it is just one earth that we all study, and cross fertilization is the key to progress. If one knows where to obtain much needed data or inspiration, no effort is too great. It is when we remain unaware of its existence (perhaps even in the office next door) that stagnation soon sets in.
Author : William Glen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780756761462
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (614 download)
Download or read book Mass-Extinction Debates written by William Glen and published by . This book was released on 1994-11-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of life on Earth is punctuated by half a dozen puzzling mass extinctions that constitute the benchmarks of the geologic time scale. These great breaks in the continuity of the fossil record have invited a wide array of scientific speculation. The most thoroughly studied of the mass extinctions occurred 65 million years ago when most life on Earth, incl. the dinosaurs, perished. Two rival hypotheses have emerged to account for this catastrophic event: the "impactor" hypothesis sees the earth bombarded with deadly meteorites, while the competing "volcanist" hypothesis evokes gigantic volcanic eruptions. This book examines the arguments and behavior of the scientists who have been locked in conflict over the competing hypotheses.
Author : William A. Berggren
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400853281
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Catastrophes and Earth History written by William A. Berggren and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Gerta Keller
Publisher : Geological Society of America
ISBN 13 : 0813725054
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (137 download)
Download or read book Volcanism, Impacts, and Mass Extinctions: Causes and Effects written by Gerta Keller and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 2014-09-16 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Comprises articles stemming from the March 2013 international conference at London's Natural History Museum. Researchers across geological, geophysical, and biological disciplines present key results from research concerning the causes of mass extinction events"--
Author : V. Courtillot
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780521583923
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (839 download)
Download or read book Evolutionary Catastrophes written by V. Courtillot and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mass extinction and cataclysmic volcanic activity: will fascinate everyone interested in the history of life and death on our planet.
Author : Norman MacLeod
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780565092788
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (927 download)
Download or read book The Great Extinctions written by Norman MacLeod and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to extinctions and their many causes and impacts.
Author : Elizabeth Kolbert
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0805092994
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Sixth Extinction written by Elizabeth Kolbert and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-02-11 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Draws on the work of geologists, botanists, marine biologists, and other researchers to discuss the five devastating mass extinctions on Earth and predicts the coming of a sixth.
Author : Annalee Newitz
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385535929
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)
Download or read book Scatter, Adapt, and Remember written by Annalee Newitz and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its 4.5 billion–year history, life on Earth has been almost erased at least half a dozen times: shattered by asteroid impacts, entombed in ice, smothered by methane, and torn apart by unfathomably powerful megavolcanoes. And we know that another global disaster is eventually headed our way. Can we survive it? How? As a species, Homo sapiens is at a crossroads. Study of our planet’s turbulent past suggests that we are overdue for a catastrophic disaster, whether caused by nature or by human interference. It’s a frightening prospect, as each of the Earth’s past major disasters—from meteor strikes to bombardment by cosmic radiation—resulted in a mass extinction, where more than 75 percent of the planet’s species died out. But in Scatter, Adapt, and Remember, Annalee Newitz, science journalist and editor of the science Web site io9.com explains that although global disaster is all but inevitable, our chances of long-term species survival are better than ever. Life on Earth has come close to annihilation—humans have, more than once, narrowly avoided extinction just during the last million years—but every single time a few creatures survived, evolving to adapt to the harshest of conditions. This brilliantly speculative work of popular science focuses on humanity’s long history of dodging the bullet, as well as on new threats that we may face in years to come. Most important, it explores how scientific breakthroughs today will help us avoid disasters tomorrow. From simulating tsunamis to studying central Turkey’s ancient underground cities; from cultivating cyanobacteria for “living cities” to designing space elevators to make space colonies cost-effective; from using math to stop pandemics to studying the remarkable survival strategies of gray whales, scientists and researchers the world over are discovering the keys to long-term resilience and learning how humans can choose life over death. Newitz’s remarkable and fascinating journey through the science of mass extinctions is a powerful argument about human ingenuity and our ability to change. In a world populated by doomsday preppers and media commentators obsessively forecasting our demise, Scatter, Adapt, and Remember is a compelling voice of hope. It leads us away from apocalyptic thinking into a future where we live to build a better world—on this planet and perhaps on others. Readers of this book will be equipped scientifically, intellectually, and emotionally to face whatever the future holds.
Author : Peter Douglas Ward
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231118620
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (186 download)
Download or read book Rivers in Time written by Peter Douglas Ward and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elaborating on and updating Ward's previous work, The End of Evolution, Rivers in Time delves into his newest discoveries. The book presents the gripping tale of the author's investigations into the history of life and death on Earth through a series of expeditions that have brought him ever closer to the truth about mass extinctions, past and future.
