T. Rex and the Crater of Doom

Name: T. Rex and the Crater of Doom
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ISBN: 9780691131030

ISBN-10: 0691131031

ISBN-13: 9780691131030

Edition: 2008 (Revised)

Authors: Walter Alvarez, Carl Zimmer

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Sixty-five million years ago, a comet or asteroid larger than Mt. Everest slammed into the Earth, causing an explosion equivalent to the detonation of a hundred million hydrogen bombs. Vaporized impactor and debris from the impact site were blasted out through the atmosphere, falling back to Earth all around the globe. Terrible environmental disasters ensued, including a giant tsunami, continent-scale wildfires, darkness, and cold, followed by sweltering greenhouse heat. When conditions returned to normal, half the genera of plants and animals on Earth had perished. This horrific story is now widely accepted as the solution to a great scientific murder mystery what caused the extinction of…

Book details

List price: $18.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 7/21/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 6.26" wide x 9.21" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English

Carl Zimmer writes the monthly essay in the US magazine Natural History, having inherited this position from Stephen Jay Gould.



Foreword


Preface



Armageddon



Ex Libro Lapidum Historia Mundi



Gradualist versus Catastrophist



Iridium



The Search for the Impact Site



The Crater of Doom



The World after Chicxulub


Notes


Index