Mass Extinctions and Their Aftermath

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Mass Extinctions and Their Aftermath A.Mass Extinctions and Their ... Textbook Hallam, P. B. Wignall
Type:	eBook
Released:	1997
Publisher:	Oxford University Press, USA
Page Count:	332
Format:	pdf
Language:	English
ISBN-10:	0198549164
ISBN-13:	9780198549161

This is the first review of all the major mass extinctions in the history of life. It covers all groups of organisms - plant, animal, terrestrial, and marine - that have gone extinct alongside the geological and sedimentological evidence for environmental changes during the biotic crises. All proposed extinction mechanisms - climage change, meteorite impact, volcanisms - are critically assessed. The demise of the dinosaurs has been amply discussed, but this is the first time that this event has been put into the proper context of other extinction events.