E-Book, Englisch, 478 Seiten
Berggren / Van Couvering Catastrophes and Earth History
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ISBN: 978-1-4008-5328-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
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The New Uniformitarianism
E-Book, Englisch, 478 Seiten
Reihe: Princeton Series in Geology and Paleontology
ISBN: 978-1-4008-5328-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
This book, based on papers from a symposium at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, shows the necessity of developing a new philosophy in place of the classical uniformitarianism based only on processes familiar in human experience.
Originally published in 1984.
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Weitere Infos & Material
FrontMatter, pg. i
Contents, pg. v
Foreword, pg. xi
Introduction, pg. 1
Chapter 1. Toward the Vindication of Punctuational Change, pg. 9
Chapter 2. Perfection, Continuity, and Common Sense in Historical Geology, pg. 35
Chapter 3. Reflections on the "Rare Event" and Related Concepts in Geology, pg. 77
Chapter 4. The Stratigraphic Code and what it implies, pg. 91
Chapter 5. Statistical Sedimentation and Magnetic Polarity Stratigraphy, pg. 101
Chapter 6. Mass Extinction: Unique or Recurrent Causes?, pg. 115
Chapter 7. The Two Phanerozoic Supercycles, pg. 129
Chapter 8. The Fabric of Cretaceous Marine Extinctions, pg. 151
Chapter 10. Changes in The Angiosperm Flora Across the Cretaceoustertiary Boundary, pg. 279
Chapter 11. Palynological Evidence for Change in Continental Floras at the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary, pg. 315
Chapter 12. Mammal Evolution near the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary, pg. 339
Chapter 13. Terminal Cretaceous Extinctions Of Large Reptiles, pg. 373
Chapter 14. Low Sea Levels, Droughts, and Mammalian Extinctions, pg. 387
Chapter 15. Eustasy, Geoid Changes, and Multiple Geophysical Interaction, pg. 395
Chapter 16. On two Kinds of Rapid Faunal Turnover, pg. 417
Chapter 17. The Phanerozoic “Crisis” as Viewed from the Miocene, pg. 437
Chapter 18. Marine Mineral Resources and Uniformitarianism, pg. 449
