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The end of the dinosaurs : Chicxulub crater and mass extinctions / Charles Frankel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Frankel, Charles.
- Standardized Title:
- Mort des dinosaures. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Catastrophes (Geology).
- Extinction (Biology).
- Cryptoexplosion structures--Mexico--Campeche, Bay of, Region.
- Cryptoexplosion structures.
- Chicxulub Crater.
- Gulf of America--Chicxulub Crater.
- Mexico.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 223 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
- Summary:
- Scientists uncover physical evidence in a comprehensive look at how the Chixulub Crater may have been ground zero for an asteroid that put an end to great creatures that once roamed the Earth. Illustrations, diagrams throughout.
- Contents:
- The great mas extinctions
- The impact hypothesis
- The controversy
- In search of the crater
- The discovery of Chicxulub crater
- Scenario of a catastrophe
- Impacts and other extinctions
- The impact hazard.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [205]-212) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0521474477
- OCLC:
- 40298401
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