Cataclysms
Subtitle: a new geology for the twenty-first century
By: Michael R. Rampino
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9780231177801
Subjects: Comets; Natural disasters; Extinction (Biology); Environmental aspects; Collisions with Earth; Volcanic eruptions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-199) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Catastrophism versus gradualism; title: Lyell's laws; title: The Alvarez hypothesis; title: Mass extinctions; title: Kill curves and Strangelove oceans; title: Catastrophism and natural selection : Charles Darwin versus Patrick Matthew; title: Impacts and extinctions : do they match up?; title: The great dying : the end-Permian extinctions; title: Catastrophic volcanic eruptions and extinctions; title: Ancient glaciers or impact-related deposits?; title: The Shiva hypothesis : comet showers and the galactic carousel; title: Geological upheavals and dark matter; title: Epilogue : what does it all mean? : a new geology.