Title: The great dinosaur extinction controversy /
Authors: Officer, Charles B.; Page, Jake.
Publisher: Addison-Wesley,
Year: 1996
Subjects: Extinction (Biology); Dinosaurs.; Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary.
Abstract: In 1980 Nobel Laureate Luis Alvarez announced his theory of the dinosaurs final demise: a gigantic meteorite crashed into the earth and raised a cloud of dust that caused darkness for years, suppressing photosynthesis, which impeded plant growth, and eventually starved the dinosaurs. This idea exploded into common awareness with almost unprecedented speed, and was instantly embraced by the media and the public. Almost without question, it quickly became the hottest scientific "fact."
Contents: 1. The Day of the Meteorite -- 2. Meteorites and Comets -- 3. A Brief History of Dinosaurdom -- 4. Paleonecrology -- 5. Early Dissent -- 6. Science and Politics -- 7. Media Science -- 8. Iridium and Shocked Quartz -- 9. The Silly Season -- 10. The Missing Crater -- 11. What Did Happen -- Afterword: Pathological Science.