From the Guajira Desert to the Apennines, and from Mediterranean microplates to the Mexican killer asteroid : honoring the career of Walter Alvarez / edited by Christian Koeberl, Department of Lithospheric Research, University of Vienna, Philippe Claeys, Analytical-Environmental-Geo-Chemistry, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Alessandro Montanari, Osservatorio Geologico di Coldigioco.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Koeberl, Christian, 1959- editor.

Claeys, Philippe, 1961- editor.

Montanari, Alessandro, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Geologists--United States--Biography.

Geologists.

Catastrophes (Geology).

Extinction (Biology).

Earth (Planet)--History.

Earth (Planet).

Alvarez, Walter, 1940-.

Alvarez, Walter.

Other Title:

From the Guajira Desert to the Apennines, and from Mediterranean Microplates to the Mexican Killer Asteroid

Place of Publication:

Geological Society of America

Summary:

"This volume pays tribute to the career and scientific accomplishments of Walter Alvarez with papers related to the many topics he has covered : tectonics of microplates, structural geology, paleomagnetics, Apennine sedimentary sequences, geoarchaeology and Roman volcanics, Big History, and the discovery of evidence for a large asteroidal impact event at the Cretaceous-Tertiary (now Cretaceous-Paleogene) boundary site in Gubbio, Italy"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Life with a field geologist : improbable adventures on five continents / Milly Alvarez

The contribution of Walter Alvarez to the investigation of the Capitoline Hill in Rome / Albert J. Ammerman

Dinosaurs could not help it, can we? Big history and planetary health / Olga García-Moreno and Maarten P. Oranje.

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-8137-9557-5