Mass Extinctions and Their AftermathOUP Oxford, 11 sept 1997 - 328 páginas Why do mass extinctions occur? The demise of the dinosaurs has been discussed exhaustively, but has never been out into the context of other extinction events. This is the first systematic review of the mass extinctions of all organisms, plant and animal, terrestrial and marine, that have occurred in the history of life. This includes the major crisis 250 million years ago which nearly wiped out all life on Earth. By examining current paleontological, geological, and sedimentological evidence of environmental changes, the cases for explanations based on climate change, marine regressions, asteroid or comet impact, anoxia, and volcanic eruptions are all critically evaluated. |
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Extinctions in the early history of the Metazoa | |
one disaster after another | |
the Kellwasser and Hangenberg events | |
Palaeozoic nemesis | |
Extinctions within and at the close of the Triassic | |
Minor extinctions of the Jurassic | |
Minor mass extinctions of the marine Cretaceous | |
Death at the CretaceousTertiary boundary | |
Cenozoic extinctions | |
The causes of mass extinctions | |
References | |
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Términos y frases comunes
abundant ammonite ammonoids anomaly anoxia Anticosti assemblages basal Basin benthic benthic foraminifera Benton biomere biostratigraphic biotic bivalves black shale bolide impact boundary sections brachiopods Brasier Brenchley bryozoans calcareous Cambrian carbon isotope Carnian catastrophic Cenomanian Changxingian climatic conodont cooling correlation Cretaceous Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary crisis deposition dinosaurs disappeared diversity early end-Cretaceous end-Permian end-Triassic Eocene evidence extinction event extinction mechanism extinction rates facies Famennian families fauna foraminifera Formation fossil record Frasnian genera Geological Society glaciation global graptolites groups habitats Hallam Hangenberg Hirnantian Holser interval iridium isotope Jurassic K-T boundary K–T boundary Kellwasser Late Devonian Late Permian latitudes Maastrichtian major marine mass extinction mass extinction events North occurred oceanic Oligocene Ordovician ostracods oxygen isotope P-Tr Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology Palaeogeography Palaeozoic Permian Phanerozoic planktonic planktonic foraminifera radiation Raup recognised reefs region regression Scythian sea-level changes sediments Sepkoski species stage stratigraphic suggests survived taxa terrestrial transgression Triassic trilobites turnover Upper waters Western Interior Zone