The Late Devonian Mass Extinction
Subtitle: The Frasnian/Famennian Crisis
By: [by] George R. McGhee, Jr.
Series: Critical Moments in Paleobiology and Earth History
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 303
Copyright date: 1996
Subjects: Extinction (Biology); Paleontology -- Devonian.; Catastrophes (Geology)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-291) and index.
Table of contents: label: 1
title: Crises in the History of Life; label: 2
title: Severity of the Mass Extinction; label: 3
title: Duration of the Mass Extinction; label: 4
title: Victims and Survivors; label: 5
title: The Late Devonian World; label: 6
title: Ecological Signature of the Mass Extinction; label: 7
title: Proposed Causes of the Mass Extinction; label: 8
title: Catastrophic Impact of an Asteroid or Comet?; label: 9
title: The Search for Evidence of Impact; label: 10
title: Extinction, Ecology, and Evolution; title: Appendix: Dramatis Personae