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Rampino, Michael R., author.
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Natural disasters -- Environmental aspects.
Comets -- Collisions with Earth.
Volcanic eruptions.
Extinction (Biology)
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Cataclysms : a new g...
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Cataclysms : a new geology for the twenty-first century / Michael R. Rampino.
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Rampino, Michael R., author.
New York : Columbia University Press, c2017.
Subjects
Natural disasters -- Environmental aspects.
Comets -- Collisions with Earth.
Volcanic eruptions.
Extinction (Biology)
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9780231177801 (hardcover)
0231177801 (hardcover)
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vi, 211 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Contents:
Introduction -- Catastrophism versus gradualism -- Lyell's laws -- The Alvarez hypothesis -- Mass extinctions -- Kill curves and Strangelove oceans -- Catastrophism and natural selection : Charles Darwin versus Patrick Matthew -- Impacts and extinctions : do they match up? -- The great dying : the end-Permian extinctions -- Catastrophic volcanic eruptions and extinctions -- Ancient glaciers or impact-related deposits? -- The Shiva hypothesis : comet showers and the galactic carousel -- Geological upheavals and dark matter -- Epilogue : what does it all mean? : a new geology.
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