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Title

Rivers in time : the search for clues to earth's mass extinctions / Peter D. Ward.

Author

Ward, Peter D. (Peter Douglas), 1949-

Publication

New York : Columbia University Press, c2000.

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Ward, Peter Douglas, 1949-

Description

viii, 315 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Several times in the distant past, catastrophic extinctions have swept the Earth, causing more than half of all species - from single-celled organisms to awe-inspiring behemoths - to suddenly vanish and be replaced by new life forms. Today the rich diversity of life on the Earth is again in grave danger - and the cause is not a sudden cataclysmic event but rather humankind's devastation of the environment. Is life on our planet teetering on the brink of another mass extinction? In this new book, acclaimed paleontologist Peter D. Ward answers this daunting question with a resounding yes"--Book jkt.

Subject

• Biodiversity
• Catastrophes (Geology)
• Extinction (Biology)
• Extinction, Biological
• Mass extinctions

Note

• Rev. ed. of: New York : Bantam Books, 1994. End of evolution.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical notes and bibliography (p. [293]-304) and index.

Contents

pt. 1. The Permian/Triassic event -- The Cape -- The Great Karoo -- End of an era -- pt. 2. The Triassic/Jurassic event -- Dawn of the Mesozoic -- Haida Gwai -- pt. 3. The Cretaceous/Tertiary mass event -- The age of dinosaurs -- Death of the dinosaurs -- pt. 4. The modern mass extinction -- Autumn -- Winter -- Overkill -- Lost islands -- Numbers -- The end of evolution, the future of evolution.

ISBN

0231118627 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^00056954^

OCLC

44509309

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Harvard Library