The ends of the world : volcanic apocalypses, lethal oceans, and our quest to understand Earth's past mass extinctions

The ends of the world : volcanic apocalypses, lethal oceans, and our quest to understand Earth's past mass extinctions / Peter Brannen.

As new groundbreaking research suggests that climate change played a major role in the most extreme catastrophes in the planet's history, award-winning science journalist Peter Brannen takes us on a wild ride through the planet's five mass extinctions and, in the process, offers us a glimp...

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Main Author: Brannen, Peter, 1983- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2017]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Mass extinctions.
Paleoclimatology.
Climatic changes.
Catastrophes (Geology)
Extinction (Biology) > History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Beginnings
  • The end-Ordovician mass extinction
  • The late Devonian mass extinction
  • The end-Permian mass extinction
  • The end-Triassic mass extinction
  • The end-Cretaceous mass extinction
  • The end-Pleistocene mass extinction
  • The near future
  • The last extinction.

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