V. Courtillot, Claude Allegre, Vincent Courtillot

Evolutionary Catastrophes

The Science of Mass Extinction

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Mass extinction and cataclysmic volcanic activity: will fascinate everyone interested in the history of life and death on our planet.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2013
• Englisch, Französisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 282g
• ISBN-13: 9780521891189
• ISBN-10: 0521891183
• Artikelnr.: 22082458

Autorenporträt

Vincent Courtillot is Professor of Geophysics at the University of Paris, heads a research group at Institut de Physique du Globe and is special advisor to the French Ministry of National Education, Research and Technology.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Claude Allège
Preface
Preface to the English translation
1. Mass extinctions
2. An asteroid impact
3. From the roof of the world to the Deccan traps
4. The volcanic scenario
5. Plumes and hotspots
6. A remarkable correlation
7. Nemesis or Shiva?
8. Chicxulub
9. Controversy and coincidence
10. Improbable catastrophes and the flukes of evolution
Index.