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a new geology for the twenty-first century

"Cataclysms" was published by Columbia University Press in 2017 - nyu, it has 211 pages and the language of the book is English.


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  • Title: Cataclysms
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  • Language: English
  • Number of Pages: 211
  • Publisher: Columbia University Press
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  • Publish Location: nyu

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  • Pagination: vi, 211 pages

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"Cataclysms" Table Of Contents:

  • 1- Introduction
  • 2- Catastrophism versus gradualism
  • 3- Lyell's laws
  • 4- The Alvarez hypothesis
  • 5- Mass extinctions
  • 6- Kill curves and Strangelove oceans
  • 7- Catastrophism and natural selection : Charles Darwin versus Patrick Matthew
  • 8- Impacts and extinctions : do they match up?
  • 9- The great dying : the end-Permian extinctions
  • 10- Catastrophic volcanic eruptions and extinctions
  • 11- Ancient glaciers or impact-related deposits?
  • 12- The Shiva hypothesis : comet showers and the galactic carousel
  • 13- Geological upheavals and dark matter
  • 14- Epilogue : what does it all mean? : a new geology.

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