The Worst of Times (eBook)

How Life on Earth Survived Eighty Million Years of Extinctions

Paul B. Wignall (Autor)

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2015
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-7424-8 (ISBN)

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Paul B. Wignall is professor of paleoenvironments at the University of Leeds.

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Unraveling the mystery of the catastrophic age of extinctionsTwo hundred sixty million years ago, life on Earth suffered wave after wave of cataclysmic extinctions, with the worst wiping out nearly every species on the planet. The Worst of Times delves into the mystery behind these extinctions and sheds light on the fateful role the primeval supercontinent, known as Pangea, might have played in causing these global catastrophes. Drawing on the latest discoveries as well as his own firsthand experiences conducting field expeditions to remote corners of the world, Paul Wignall reveals what scientists are only now beginning to understand about the most prolonged and calamitous period of environmental crisis in Earth's history. Wignall shows how these series of unprecedented extinction events swept across the planet, killing life on a scale more devastating than the dinosaur extinctions that would follow. The Worst of Times unravels one of the great enigmas of ancient Earth and shows how this ushered in a new age of vibrant and more resilient life on our planet.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.9.2015
• Zusatzinfo: 16 color illus. 2 halftones. 11 line illus.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Mineralogie / Paläontologie
• Schlagworte: Aetosaur • Ammonoidea • Bergmann's rule • Bivalvia • Brachiopod • Bryozoa • Calcite • Calcium Carbonate • Capitanian • carbon-13 • Carbon dioxide • Carboniferous • Carnian • catastrophism • chert • climate change • Coccolith • conodont • Continental Shelf • Cretaceous • Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event • crustacean • Cycad • Deccan Traps • Deep sea • Dicynodont • disaster • Early Jurassic • Early Triassic • Emeishan Traps • extinction event • Flood basalt • foraminifera • Framboid • Gastropoda • Geochemistry • geologist • Geology • global warming • Greenhouse Gas • Holocene extinction • ichthyosaur • Jurassic • Karoo-Ferrar • Large Igneous Province • Late Devonian extinction • Late Triassic • Lava • Lava field • Mantle Plume • Marine Biology • Marine reptile • methane • mudstone • Ocean Acidification • Ocean deoxygenation • Oceanic Crust • Ordovician–Silurian extinction events • Ostracod • ozone depletion • paleontology • Pangaea • Panthalassa • Peat • Pelagic zone • Permian • Permian–Triassic extinction event • photosynthesis • Phytoplankton • Phytosaur • Plankton • Plate Tectonics • pterosaur • Pyrite • Radiolaria • Rainout • Rhaetian • seabed • seawater • Sediment • sedimentary rock • Sedimentation • shale • Siberian Traps • Soil • Spitsbergen • subduction • Sulfur Dioxide • supercontinent • Surface Water • therapsid • Toarcian • Triassic • Triassic–Jurassic extinction event • Types of volcanic eruptions • Volcanic gas • volcanism • Water column • weathering • year
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-7424-6 / 1400874246
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-7424-8 / 9781400874248