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Catastrophes and lesser calamities : the causes of mass extinctions / Tony Hallam.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hallam, Tony, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Extinction (Biology).
- Catastrophes (Geology).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 226 p. ) ill., maps, ports.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Geologist Tony Hallam takes readers on a tour of the Earth's history, and of the cataclysmic events, as well as the more gradual extinctions, that have punctuated life on Earth throughout the past 500 million years.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- 1 In search of possible causes of mass extinctions
- 2 Historical background
- 3 Evidence for catastrophic organic changes in the geological record
- 4 Impact by comets and asteroids
- 5 Sea-level changes
- 6 Oxygen deficiency in the oceans
- 7 Climate change
- 8 Volcanic activity
- 9 Pulling the strands together
- 10 The evolutionary significance of mass extinctions
- 11 The influence of humans
- Notes and suggestions for further reading
- Bibliography
- Glossary
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- Z
- Index
- Q
- W
- Z.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2004.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 11, 2016).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-191643-9
- 0-19-152344-5
- 1-280-76294-2
- 0-19-151309-1
- 1-4294-2116-9
- OCLC:
- 960165805
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