Mass Extinctions: Process and Evidence
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ISBN: 0231070918 / Publisher: Columbia University Press, January 1992
Mass extinctions are one of the most hotly contested and controversial areas in contemporary science...
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Mass extinctions are one of the most hotly contested and controversial areas in contemporary science. Within the last decade research into the mass disappearance of species from the fossil record has become a prominent area of paleobiological studies, following the emergence of suggestive evidence that the sudden demise of the dinosaurs and other groups of organisms at the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary may have had an extraterrestrial cause. Original contributions, each written by an expert on a particular event or related field, summarize the present state of knowledge about mass extinction processes. Includes tables. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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