Global catastrophes in earth history : an interdisciplinary conference on impacts, volcanism, and mass mortality / edited by Virgil L. Sharpton, Peter D. Ward.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sharpton, Virgil L.

Ward, Peter D. (Peter Douglas), 1949-

Geological Society of America.

Series:

Special papers (Geological Society of America) ; 247.

Special paper / Geological Society of America ; 247

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Extinction (Biology)--Congresses.

Extinction (Biology).

Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary--Congresses.

Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary.

Volcanism--Congresses.

Volcanism.

Impact--Congresses.

Impact.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 631 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colo. : Geological Society of America, 1990.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

I. Patterns of mass mortality: models, overviews, and hypotheses. The "facts" of mass extinctions / Karl W. Flessa

Periodicity in flood basalts, mass extinctions, and impacts: A statistical view and a model / Richard B. Stothers and Michael R. Rampino

On impacts as a cause of geomagnetic field reversals or flood basalts / David E. Loper and Kevin McCartney

Impact as a general cause of extinction; A feasibility test / David M. Raup

The taxonomic structure of periodic extinction / J. John Sepkoski, Jr.

Iridium abundance patterns across bio-event horizons in the fossil record / C.J. Orth, M. Attrep, Jr., and L.R. Quintana

Carbon-isotope anomalies at era boundaries; Global catastrophes and their ultimate cause / Kenneth J. Hsü and Judith A. McKenzie

Chondritic metal toxicity as a seed stock kill mechanism in impact-caused mass extinctions / Stewart A. Davenport, Thomas J. Wdowiak, Daniel D. Jones, and Patricia Wdowiak

Effects of global atmospheric perturbations on forest ecosystems in the Northern Temperate Zone; Predictions of seasonal depressed-temperature kill mechanisms, biomass production, and wildfire soot emissions / Richard W. Tinus and David J. Roddy

A search for Nemesis; Current status and review of theory / S. Perlmutter, R.A. Muller, C.R. Pennypacker, C.K. Smith, L.P. Wang, S. White, and H.S. Yang

Interdisciplinary aspects of research on impacts and mass extinctions; A personal view / Walter Alvarez.

II. Catastrophic Effects of Volcanism: Observations and Hypotheses. Assessment of the atmospheric impact of volcanic eruptions / Haraldur Sigurdsson

Iridium and other trace-metal enrichments from Hawaiian volcanoes / D.L. Finnegan, T.L. Miller, and W.H. Zoller

Deccan volcanism, greenhouse warming, and the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary / Kenneth G. Caldeira and Michael R. Rampino

A paradigm for endogenous causation of mass extinctions / Kevin McCartney, Alan R. Huffman, and Marian Tredoux

Explosive volcanism and associated pressures; Implications for models of endogenically shocked quartz / Place of publication not identified de Silva, J.A. Wolff, and V.L. Sharpton.

III. Observations and Effects of Large-Scale Meteorite Impact. Impact and its revolutionary implications for geology / Ursula B. Marvin

Asteroid and comet flux in the neighborhood of Earth / Eugene M. Shoemaker, Ruth F. Wolfe, and Carolyn S. Shoemaker

The cometary impactor flux at the Earth / Paul R. Weissman

Application of the inner Solar System cratering record to the Earth / Nadine G. Barlow

Search for the Tunguska event relics in the Antarctic snow and new estimation of the cosmic iridium accretion rate / Robert Rocchia, Philippe Bonté, Célestine Jéhanno, Eric Robin, Martine de Angelis, and Daniel Boclet

The formation of the Ries Crater, West Germany; Evidence of atmospheric interactions during a larger cratering event / Horton E. Newsom, Günther Graup, David A. Iseri, John W. Geissman, and Klaus Keil

Geology, geophysics, and geochronology of the Manson impact structure / Jack B. Hartung, Michael J. Kunk, and Raymond R. Anderson

Comets and extinctions; Cause and effect? / Lubomir F. Jansa, Marie-Pierre Aubry, and Felix M. Gradstein

The Kara/Ust-Kara twin impact structure; A large-scale impact event in the Late Cretaceous / Christian Koeberl, Virgil L. Sharpton, T. Mark Harrison, David Sandwell, A.V. Murali, and Kevin Burke

Prolonged global catastrophes from oblique impacts / Peter H. Schultz and Donald E. Gault

Global environmental effects of impact-generated aerosols; Results from a general circulation model / Curt Covey, Steven J. Ghan, John J. Walton, and Paul R. Weissman

Atmospheric chemistry by large impacts / Kevin J. Zahnle

Atmospheric erosion and impactor retention in large impacts, with application to mass extinctions / Ann M. Vickery and H. Jay Melosh.

IV. The K/T Boundary: The Geologic Record. Meteorite impact, cryptoexplosion, and shock metamorphism; A perspective on the evidence at the K/T boundary / V.L. Sharpton and R.A.F. Grieve

Chemistry and mineralogy across the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary at DSDP Site 527, Walvis Ridge, South Atlantic Ocean / Alan R. Huffman, James H. Crocket, Neville L. Carter, Peter E. Borella, and Charles B. Officer

Shocked quartz and more; Impact signatures in Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary clays / Bruce F. Bohor

A closer look at cathodoluminescence of shocked quartz at the K/T boundary / Michael R. Owen, Mark H. Anders, April A. Barber, Peter D. Condon, and Mark G. Haughton

Detritus in K/T boundary clays of western North America; Evidence against a single oceanic impact / V.L. Sharpton, B.C. Schuraytz, K. Burke, A.V. Murali, and G. Ryder

The significance of magnetic spheroids and magnesioferrite occurring in K/T boundary sediments / Stanley M. Cisowski

Trace-element geochemistry and mineralogy of the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary; Identification of extraterrestrial components / Eric Doehne and Stanley V. Margolis

Early environmental effects of the terminal Cretaceous impact / Iain Gilmour, Wendy S. Wolbach, and Edward Anders

Major wildfires at the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary / Wendy S. Wolbach, Iain Gilmour, and Edward Anders

Deccan volcanism at the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary; Data and inferences / V. Courtillot, D. Vandamme, J. Besse, J.J. Jaeger, and M. Javoy

Boundaries; A stratigraphie and sedimentologie perspective / Joanne Bourgeois

Diachronous extinctions at the K/T boundary; A scenario / Hans Jørgen Hansen.

V. The K/T Boundary: The Biological Record. The Cretaceous/Tertiary extinctions in the marine realm; A 1990 perspective / Peter Douglas Ward

Megafloral change across the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary in the northern Great Plains and Rocky Mountains, U.S.A. / Kirk R. Johnson and Leo J. Hickey

Plant microfossil record of the terminal Cretaceous event in the western United States and Canada / Douglas J. Nichols and R. Farley Fleming

Palynofloral response to K/T boundary events; A transitory interruption within a dynamic system / A.R. Sweet, D.R. Braman, and J.F. Lerbekmo

Faunal, erosional, and CaCO3 events in the early Tertiary eastern Tethys / Gerta Keller, Chaim Benjamini, Mordechai Magaritz, and Shimon Moshkovitz

Late Cretaceous-early Eocene mass extinctions in the deep sea / Ellen Thomas

The effects of bioturbation across a biostratigraphically complete high southern latitude Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary / James J. Pospichal, Sherwood W. Wise, Jr., Frank Asaro, and Norman Hamilton

Extinction pattern of Inoceramus (Bivalvia) based on shell fragment biostratigraphy / Kenneth G. MacLeod and Peter D. Ward

A review of Maastrichtian ammonite ranges / Peter D. Ward

Selective extinction of marine plankton in the Paratethys at the end of the Mesozoic Era; A multiple interaction hypothesis / Yvonne Herman

Rocks, resolution, and the record; A review of depositional constraints on fossil vertebrate assemblages at the terrestrial Cretaceous/Paleogene boundary, eastern Montana and western North Dakota / David E. Fastovsky

Differential Cretaceous/Tertiary extinctions of nonmarine vertebrates; Evidence from northeastern Montana / J. David Archibald and Laurie J. Bryant

The Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary impact hypothesis and the paleontological record / Gerta Keller and Enriqueta Barrera.

VI. Other Phanerozoic Extinctions. The end-Triassic mass extinction event / A. Hallam

The Triassic/Jurassic boundary in continental rocks of eastern North America; A progress report / P.E. Olsen, S.J. Fowell, and B. Cornet

Effects of late Eocene impacts on planktic foraminifera / N. MacLeod

Geochronology of the terminal Eocene impacts; An update / Alessandro Montanari.

Notes:

Print version record.

Conference held Oct. 20-23, 1988, in Snowbird, Utah, as a sequel to the Conference on Large Body Impacts held in 1981 also in Snowbird.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Print version

OCLC:

893213332

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