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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 tells the story behind the development of the initially controversial theory.
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 tells the story behind the development of the initially controversial theory.
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Walter Alvarez
With a new Foreword by Carl Zimmer
With a new Foreword by Carl Zimmer
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Erscheinungsjahr: | 2015 |
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Fachbereich: | Paläontologie |
Genre: | Geowissenschaften |
Rubrik: | Naturwissenschaften & Technik |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
Seiten: | 208 |
Inhalt: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
ISBN-13: | 9780691169668 |
ISBN-10: | 0691169667 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: | Alvarez, Walter |
Orchester: | Zimmer, Carl |
Besonderheit: | Unsere Aufsteiger |
Hersteller: | Princeton University Press |
Maße: | 216 x 136 x 20 mm |
Von/Mit: | Walter Alvarez |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 15.09.2015 |
Gewicht: | 0,215 kg |
Über den Autor
Walter Alvarez
With a new Foreword by Carl Zimmer
With a new Foreword by Carl Zimmer
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2015 |
---|---|
Fachbereich: | Paläontologie |
Genre: | Geowissenschaften |
Rubrik: | Naturwissenschaften & Technik |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
Seiten: | 208 |
Inhalt: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
ISBN-13: | 9780691169668 |
ISBN-10: | 0691169667 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: | Alvarez, Walter |
Orchester: | Zimmer, Carl |
Besonderheit: | Unsere Aufsteiger |
Hersteller: | Princeton University Press |
Maße: | 216 x 136 x 20 mm |
Von/Mit: | Walter Alvarez |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 15.09.2015 |
Gewicht: | 0,215 kg |
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