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Cretaceous-Tertiary mass extinctions : biotic and environmental changes / [edited by] Norman MacLeod and Gerta Keller.
- Title
- Cretaceous-Tertiary mass extinctions : biotic and environmental changes / [edited by] Norman MacLeod and Gerta Keller.
- Publication
- New York : W.W. Norton, c1996.
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- Description
- xiv, 575 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Summary
- A fascinating study that combines research on mass extinction with the theoretical perspectives of the leaders in the field. In twenty engaging essays, more than thirty leading paleobiologists and paleontologists uncover a wealth of data from the fossil record about changes in species survival and physical environments across the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K/T) boundary. Together these papers present a much-awaited global perspective on the bilogical and environmental changes taking place during this critical period in the history of life. Anyone interested in the K/T boundary controversy and how research scientists interpret the relationship between climate change and mass extinction will find this work essential.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Cretaceous-tertiary cloud chamber / Niles Eldredge -- Palynological change across the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary on Seymour Island, Antarctica : environmental and depositional factors / Rosemary A. Askin and Stephen R. Jacobson -- Calcareous nannofossils at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary / S. Gartner -- Cretaceous-Tertiary mass extinction in Planktonic Foraminifera : biotic constraints for catastrophe theories / Gerta Keller -- Nature of the Cretaceous-Tertiary Planktonic Foraminiferal record : stratigraphic confidence intervals, Signor-Lipps effect, and patterns of survivorship / Norman MacLeod --
- Latest Maastrichtian and Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary Foraminiferal turnover and environmental changes at Agost, Spain / Alfonso Pardo, Nieves Ortiz, and Gerta Keller -- Radiolarian faunal change through the Cretaceous-Tertiary transition of Eastern Marlborough, New Zealand / Christopher J. Hollis -- Earliest origins of Northern Hemisphere temperate nonmarine Ostracode Taxa : evolutionary development and survival through the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary mass-extinction event / Elisabeth M. Brouwers and Patrick De Deckker --
- Masstrichtian extinction patterns of Caribbean Province Rudistids / Claudia C. Johnson and Erle G. Kauffman -- Survivorship of Mesozoic mollusks in the Paleocene Arctic Ocean / Louie Marincovich, Jr. -- Ammonite extinctions and environmental changes across the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in Central Chile / Wolfgang Stinnesbeck -- Late Cretaceous faunal changes in the high southern latitudes : a harbinger of global biotic catastrophe? / William J. Zinsmeister and Rodney M. Feldmann --
- Biological consequences of Mesozoic atmospheres : respiratory adaptations and functional range of "Apatosaurus" / Richard A. Hengst...[et. al.] -- Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in the Nanxiong Basin (Continenal Facies, Southeast China) / Johannes Stets...[et. al.] -- Testing extinction theories at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary using the vertebrate fossil record / J. D. Archibald -- Stratigraphic and sedimentologic characteristics of the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in the Ager Basin, Lleida Province, Northeast Spain / Ferran Colombo --
- Sea-level changes, clastic deposits, and Megatsunamis across the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary / Gerta Keller and Wolfgang Stinnesbeck -- Environmental changes across the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in Northeastern Brazil / Wolfgang Stinnesbeck and Gerta Keller -- Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary Clastic deposits in Northeastern Mexico : impact Tsunami or sea-level lowstand / Wolfgang Stinnesbeck...[et. al.] -- Pele hypothesis : ancient atmospheres and geologic-geochemical controls on evolution, survival, and extinction / Gary P. Landis...[et. al.].
- ISBN
- 0393966577 (cloth)
- LCCN
- ^^^95010161^
- OCLC
- 32166826
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library