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Alvarez Walter - T. Rex And The Crater Of Doom - Paperback
Alvarez Walter - T. Rex And The Crater Of Doom - Paperback
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Description: Sixty - five million years ago a comet or asteroid larger than Mount Everest slammed into the Earth inducing an explosion equivalent to the detonation of a hundred million hydrogen bombs. Vaporized detritus blasted through the atmosphere upon impact falling back to Earth around the globe. Disastrous environmental consequences ensued: a giant tsunami continent - scale wildfires darkness and cold followed by sweltering greenhouse heat. When conditions returned to normal half the plant and animal genera on Earth had perished. This horrific chain of events is now widely accepted as the solution to a great scientific mystery: what caused the extinction of the dinosaurs? Walter Alvarez one of the Berkeley scientists who discovered evidence of the impact tells the story behind the development of the initially controversial theory. It is a saga of high adventure in remote locations of arduous data collection and intellectual struggle of long periods of frustration ended by sudden breakthroughs of friendships made and lost and of the exhilaration of discovery that forever altered our understanding of Earth's geological history.
Title: T. Rex And The Crater Of Doom
Author(s): Alvarez Walter
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Barcode: 9780691169668
Pages: 208 Pages, 8 Color Plates. 15 Halftones. 2 Line Illus.
Publication Date: 9/15/2015
Series: Princeton Science Library
Category: Palaeontology
Description: Sixty - five million years ago a comet or asteroid larger than Mount Everest slammed into the Earth inducing an explosion equivalent to the detonation of a hundred million hydrogen bombs. Vaporized detritus blasted through the atmosphere upon impact falling back to Earth around the globe. Disastrous environmental consequences ensued: a giant tsunami continent - scale wildfires darkness and cold followed by sweltering greenhouse heat. When conditions returned to normal half the plant and animal genera on Earth had perished. This horrific chain of events is now widely accepted as the solution to a great scientific mystery: what caused the extinction of the dinosaurs? Walter Alvarez one of the Berkeley scientists who discovered evidence of the impact tells the story behind the development of the initially controversial theory. It is a saga of high adventure in remote locations of arduous data collection and intellectual struggle of long periods of frustration ended by sudden breakthroughs of friendships made and lost and of the exhilaration of discovery that forever altered our understanding of Earth's geological history.
Title: T. Rex And The Crater Of Doom
Author(s): Alvarez Walter
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Barcode: 9780691169668
Pages: 208 Pages, 8 Color Plates. 15 Halftones. 2 Line Illus.
Publication Date: 9/15/2015
Series: Princeton Science Library
Category: Palaeontology
