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T. rex and the crater of doom / Walter Alvarez.
LIBRA QE506 .A48 1997
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Alvarez, Walter, 1940-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Catastrophes (Geology).
- Extinction (Biology).
- Cryptoexplosion structures--Mexico--Campeche, Bay of, Region.
- Cryptoexplosion structures.
- Chicxulub Crater.
- Gulf of America--Chicxulub Crater.
- Mexico.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xii, 185 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 25 cm
- Other Title:
- Tyrannosaurus rex and the crater of doom
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1997]
- Summary:
- The once controversial theory that a giant comet or asteroid slammed into the Earth 65 million years ago is now widely accepted as the solution to a great scientific mystery: what caused the extinction of the dinosaurs? In "T. rex and the Crater of Doom", the story of the scientific work that went into solving the mystery is told by one of the geologists who discovered the first evidence of the giant impact. of color illustrations. 12 halftones.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [147]-169) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0691016305
- OCLC:
- 36104195
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