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The Worst of Times : How Life on Earth Survived Eighty Million Years of Extinctions / Paul B. Wignall.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wignall, P. B., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mass extinctions.
- Extinction (Biology).
- Survival.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (236 p.)
- Edition:
- Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2015]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Two hundred sixty million years ago, life on Earth suffered wave after wave of cataclysmic extinctions, with the worst wiping out nearly every species on the planet. The Worst of Times delves into the mystery behind these extinctions and sheds light on the fateful role the primeval supercontinent, known as Pangea, might have played in causing these global catastrophes. Drawing on the latest discoveries as well as his own firsthand experiences conducting field expeditions to remote corners of the world, Paul Wignall reveals what scientists are only now beginning to understand about the most prolonged and calamitous period of environmental crisis in Earth's history. Wignall shows how these series of unprecedented extinction events swept across the planet, killing life on a scale more devastating than the dinosaur extinctions that would follow. The Worst of Times unravels one of the great enigmas of ancient Earth and shows how this ushered in a new age of vibrant and more resilient life on our planet.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- PROLOGUE
- CHAPTER 1. A TIME OF DYING
- CHAPTER 2. EXTINCTION IN THE SHADOWS
- CHAPTER 3. THE KILLING SEAS
- CHAPTER 4. TROUBLED TIMES IN THE TRIASSIC
- CHAPTER 5. TRIASSIC DOWNFALL
- CHAPTER 6. PANGEA'S FINAL BLOW
- CHAPTER 7. PANGEA'S DEATH AND THE RISE OF RESILIENCE
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- INDEX
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781400874248
- 1400874246
- OCLC:
- 916922363
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