Global catastrophes in earth history
Subtitle: an interdisciplinary conference on impacts, volcanism, and mass mortality
By: edited by Virgil L. Sharpton, Peter D. Ward.
Contributors: Sharpton, Virgil L.; Ward, Peter Douglas, 1949-
Series: Special paper / Geological Society of America ;; 247; Special papers (Geological Society of America) ;; 247.
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Boulder, Colo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 631
Subjects: Extinction (Biology) -- Congresses.; Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary -- Congresses.; Volcanism -- Congresses.; Impact -- Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Conference held Oct. 20-23, 1988, in Snowbird, Utah, as a sequel to the Conference on Large Body Impacts held in 1981 also in Snowbird.