Extinction Events

Author : Elizabeth Kolbert
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-11
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780805099799

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The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert Pdf

ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR A major book about the future of the world, blending intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a powerful account of the mass extinction unfolding before our eyes Over the last half a billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. This time around, the cataclysm is us. In The Sixth Extinction, two-time winner of the National Magazine Award and New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert draws on the work of scores of researchers in half a dozen disciplines, accompanying many of them into the field: geologists who study deep ocean cores, botanists who follow the tree line as it climbs up the Andes, marine biologists who dive off the Great Barrier Reef. She introduces us to a dozen species, some already gone, others facing extinction, including the Panamian golden frog, staghorn coral, the great auk, and the Sumatran rhino. Through these stories, Kolbert provides a moving account of the disappearances occurring all around us and traces the evolution of extinction as concept, from its first articulation by Georges Cuvier in revolutionary Paris up through the present day. The sixth extinction is likely to be mankind's most lasting legacy; as Kolbert observes, it compels us to rethink the fundamental question of what it means to be human.

Author : Michael Hannah
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108843539

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Extinctions by Michael Hannah Pdf

Mass extinctions, the fossil record, and whether we can avoid a disastrous human-made mass extinction event.

Author : A. Hallam,P. B. Wignall
Publisher : Oxford University Press, UK
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1997-09-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780191588396

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Mass Extinctions and Their Aftermath by A. Hallam,P. B. Wignall Pdf

The first book to review all the evidence concerning both the dinosaur extinctions and all the other major extinctions - of plant, animal, terrestrial, and marine life - in the history of life. All the extinction mechanisms are critically assessed, including meteorite impact, anoxia, and volcanism. - ;Why do mass extinctions occur? The demise of the dinosaurs has been discussed exhaustively, but has never been out into the context of other extinction events. This is the first systematic review of the mass extinctions of all organisms, plant and animal, terrestrial and marine, that have occurred in the history of life. This includes the major crisis 250 million years ago which nearly wiped out all life on Earth. By examining current paleontological, geological, and sedimentological evidence of environmental changes, the cases for explanations based on climate change, marine regressions, asteroid or comet impact, anoxia, and volcanic eruptions are all critically evaluated. -

Author : IGCP Project 216--"Global Biological Events in Earth History."
Publisher : Springer
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Science
ISBN : UCSD:31822005123344

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Extinction Events in Earth History by IGCP Project 216--"Global Biological Events in Earth History." Pdf

Author : Dan Abnett
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781845766931

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Primeval: Extinction Event by Dan Abnett Pdf

When an Entelodon goes on the rampage down Oxford Street, causing untold damage and loss of life, Cutter decides a new approach to tackling the anomalies is needed. However, his investigations expose him and the team to a violent encounter with a mysterious Russian scientist and a situation more catastrophic and frightening than they've ever faced before... When Cutter, Abby and Connor disappear without a trace, Lester and Jenny must use every trick in the book to try and track them down...

Author : M. B. Hart
Publisher : Geological Society of London
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Science
ISBN : 1897799454

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Biotic Recovery from Mass Extinction Events by M. B. Hart Pdf

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Author : William Glen
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780804722865

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The Mass-Extinction Debates by William Glen Pdf

This book examines the arguments and behavior of the scientists who have been locked in conflict over two competing theories to explain why, 65 million years ago, most life on earth—including the dinosaurs—perished.

Author : Liz Breazeale
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781496215628

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Extinction Events by Liz Breazeale Pdf

In this collection of short stories, Liz Breazeale explores the connections between humans and the natural world by examining the processes and history of our planet. A myriad of extinction events large and small have ruptured the history of the earth, and so it is with the women of this book, who struggle to define themselves amid their own personal cataclysms and those igniting the world around them. They are a mother watching the islands of the world disappear one by one, a new bride using alien abduction to get closer to her estranged parent, a daughter searching for her mother among the lost cities of the world, a sister trying and failing to protect her mythical continent–obsessed brother. Here extinction events come in all sizes and shapes: as volcanic eruptions and devastating plagues and meteor impacts, as estrangements and betrayals and losses. Dark, angry, and apocalyptic, Extinction Events is a compendium of all the ways in which life can be annihilated.

Author : Michael Charles Boulter
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0231128363

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Extinction by Michael Charles Boulter Pdf

Mikhail Gorbachev and Zdenek Mlynar were friends for half a century, since they first crossed paths as students in 1950. Although one was a Russian and the other a Czech, they were both ardent supporters of communism and socialism. One took part in laying the groundwork for and carrying out the Prague spring; the other opened a new political era in Soviet world politics. In 1993 they decided that their conversations might be of interest to others and so they began to tape-record them. This book is the product of that "thinking out loud" process. It is an absorbing record of two friends trying to explain to one another their views on the problems and events that determined their destinies. From reminiscences of their starry-eyed university days to reflections on the use of force to "save socialism" to contemplation of the end of the cold war, here is a far more candid picture of Gorbachev than we have ever seen before.

Author : Michael J. Benton
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780500778616

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Extinctions: How Life Survives, Adapts and Evolves by Michael J. Benton Pdf

A journey through the great mass extinction events that have shaped our Earth. This timely and original book lays out the latest scientific understanding of mass extinction on our planet. Cutting-edge techniques across biology, chemistry, physics, and geology have transformed our understanding of the deep past, including the discovery of a previously unknown mass extinction. This compelling evidence, revealing a series of environmental crises resulting in the near collapse of life on Earth, illuminates our current dilemmas in exquisite detail. Beginning with the oldest, Professor Michael J. Benton takes us through the “big five” die outs: the Late Ordovician, which set the evolution of the first animals on an entirely new course; the Late Devonian, apparently brought on by global warming; the cataclysmic End-Permian, also known as the Great Dying, which wiped out over 90 percent of alllife on Earth; the newly discovered Carnian Pluvial Event; and the End-Cretaceous asteroid. He examines how global warming, acid rain, ocean acidification, erupting volcanoes, and meteorite impact have affected conditions on Earth, and how life survived, adapted, and evolved. Benton’s expert retelling of scientific breakthroughs in paleobiology is illustrated throughout with photographs of fossils and fieldwork, and artistic reconstructions of ancient environments. In Extinctions, readers will learn about revolutionary new tools used to uncover ancient extinction events and processes in forensic detail, and how scientists are improving our understanding of the deep past. New research allows us to link long-ago upheavals to crises in our current age, the Anthropocene, with important consequences for us all.

Author : Anthony Hallam,Tony Hallam
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005-07-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780192806680

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Catastrophes and Lesser Calamities by Anthony Hallam,Tony Hallam Pdf

Uses the geological record to trace historical and modern views on five mass extinction events, including the disappearance of dinosaurs.

Author : Ashraf M.T. Elewa
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783540759164

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Mass Extinction by Ashraf M.T. Elewa Pdf

The present book combines three main aspects: five major mass extinctions; contributions on some other minor extinctions; and more importantly contributions on the current mass extinction. All three aspects are introduced through interesting studies of mass extinctions in diverse organisms ranging from small invertebrates to mammals and take account of the most accepted subjects discussing mass extinctions in insects, mammals, fishes, ostracods and molluscs.

Author : Michael J. Benton
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780500773208

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When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time (Revised edition) by Michael J. Benton Pdf

“The focus is the most severe mass extinction known in earth’s history. The science on which the book is based is up-to-date, thorough, and balanced. Highly recommended.” —Choice Today it is common knowledge that the dinosaurs were wiped out by a meteorite impact 65 million years ago that killed half of all species then living. It is far less widely understood that a much greater catastrophe took place at the end of the Permian period 251 million years ago: at least ninety percent of life on earth was destroyed. When Life Nearly Died documents not only what happened during this gigantic mass extinction but also the recent renewal of the idea of catastrophism: the theory that changes in the earth’s crust were brought about suddenly in the past by phenomena that cannot be observed today. Was the end-Permian event caused by the impact of a huge meteorite or comet, or by prolonged volcanic eruption in Siberia? The evidence has been accumulating, and Michael J. Benton gives his verdict at the end of the volume. The new edition brings the study of the greatest mass extinction of all time thoroughly up-to-date. In the twelve years since the book was originally published, hundreds of geologists and paleontologists have been investigating all aspects of how life could be driven to the brink of annihilation, and especially how life recovered afterwards, providing the foundations of modern ecosystems.

Author : Erle G. Kauffman,Otto H. Walliser
Publisher : Springer
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1990-05-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 3540526056

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Extinction Events in Earth History by Erle G. Kauffman,Otto H. Walliser Pdf

This volume is dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of dynamic biological changes through the Phanerozoic which are associated with mass extinction events and similar biotic crises, and their causal mechanisms. In particular, it documents in detail the complex nature of terrestrial and extraterrestrial feedback loops that are associated with many mass extinction intervals. Authors have been asked to represent most of the known mass extinction events through time, and to comment on the complex earthbound or extraterrestrial causes (or both) for global biotic crises. The reader is offered new perspectives of extinction boundaries, a more innovative and diverse approach to causal mechanisms and mass extinction theory, blended views of paleobiologists, oceanographers, geochemists, volcanologists, and sedimentologists by an international cast of authors. No other book on extinction presents such a broad spectrum of data and theories on the subject of mass extinction.

Author : Liz Breazeale
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781496218322

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Extinction Events by Liz Breazeale Pdf

In this collection of short stories, Liz Breazeale explores the connections between humans and the natural world by examining the processes and history of our planet. A myriad of extinction events large and small have ruptured the history of the earth, and so it is with the women of this book, who struggle to define themselves amid their own personal cataclysms and those igniting the world around them. They are a mother watching the islands of the world disappear one by one, a new bride using alien abduction to get closer to her estranged parent, a daughter searching for her mother among the lost cities of the world, a sister trying and failing to protect her mythical continent–obsessed brother. Here extinction events come in all sizes and shapes: as volcanic eruptions and devastating plagues and meteor impacts, as estrangements and betrayals and losses. Dark, angry, and apocalyptic, Extinction Events is a compendium of all the ways in which life can be annihilated.