T. rex and the crater of doom

T. rex and the crater of doom / Walter Alvarez.

Sixty-five million years ago, a comet or asteroid larger than Mt. Everest slammed into the Earth, causing an explosion equivalent to the detonation of a hundred million hydrogen bombs. Vaporized impactor and debris from the impact site were blasted out through the atmosphere, falling back to Earth a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Alvarez, Walter, 1940-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1997.
Subjects:
Cryptoexplosion structures > Mexico > Campeche, Bay of, Region.
Extinction (Biology)
Catastrophes (Geology)
Cryptoexplosion structures
Chicxulub Crater.
Gulf of Mexico > Chicxulub Crater
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Contents; Forward; Preface; Chapter 1: Armageddon; Chapter 2: Ex Libro Lapidum Historia Mundi; Chapter 3: Gradualist versus Catastrophist; Chapter 4: Iridium; Chapter 5: The Search for the Impact Site; Chapter 6: The Crater of Doom; Chapter 7: The World after Chicxulub; Notes; Index.

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