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In this lively and entertaining book, Donald R. Prothero explores the astonishing connections between climate and life through the ages, telling the remarkable stories of the scientists who made crucial discoveries.
In this lively and entertaining book, Donald R. Prothero explores the astonishing connections between climate and life through the ages, telling the remarkable stories of the scientists who made crucial discoveries.
Über den Autor
Donald R. Prothero is a paleontology and geology researcher, teacher, and author. He is adjunct professor of geological sciences at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, and research associate in vertebrate paleontology at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. His Columbia University Press books include The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks: Tales of Important Geological Puzzles and the People Who Solved Them (2018), The Story of the Dinosaurs in 25 Discoveries: Amazing Fossils and the People Who Found Them (2019), and The Story of Evolution in 25 Discoveries: The Evidence and the People Who Found It (2020).
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Rare Earth
2. In the Beginning
3. Moonstruck
4. Faint Young Sun
5. The Oceans Form
6. GASP: Oxygen in the Atmosphere
7. Planet of the Scum
8. Snowball Earth
9. Plankton Power
10. Greenhouse of the Trilobites
11. Mass Extinctions: The Ordovician Event
12. The Devonian Crises
13. The First Forests
14. The Pangean Icehouse
15. The "Great Dying"
16. From Icehouse to Greenhouse: The Triassic and Jurassic
17. Greenhouse of the Dinosaurs
18. The Death of the Dinosaurs: The End-Cretaceous Extinctions
19. Return of the Greenhouse: The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum
20. From Greenhouse to Icehouse: The Eocene-Oligocene Transition
21. American Serengeti
22. Ice Planet: The Pleistocene Ice Ages
23. The Death of the Megamammals
24. The Holocene: Climate and Human Civilization
25. The Future Greenhouse Planet
Index
Acknowledgments
1. Rare Earth
2. In the Beginning
3. Moonstruck
4. Faint Young Sun
5. The Oceans Form
6. GASP: Oxygen in the Atmosphere
7. Planet of the Scum
8. Snowball Earth
9. Plankton Power
10. Greenhouse of the Trilobites
11. Mass Extinctions: The Ordovician Event
12. The Devonian Crises
13. The First Forests
14. The Pangean Icehouse
15. The "Great Dying"
16. From Icehouse to Greenhouse: The Triassic and Jurassic
17. Greenhouse of the Dinosaurs
18. The Death of the Dinosaurs: The End-Cretaceous Extinctions
19. Return of the Greenhouse: The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum
20. From Greenhouse to Icehouse: The Eocene-Oligocene Transition
21. American Serengeti
22. Ice Planet: The Pleistocene Ice Ages
23. The Death of the Megamammals
24. The Holocene: Climate and Human Civilization
25. The Future Greenhouse Planet
Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2024 |
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Genre: | Umwelt |
Produktart: | Nachschlagewerke |
Rubrik: | Ökologie |
Medium: | Buch |
ISBN-13: | 9780231203586 |
ISBN-10: | 0231203586 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Gebunden |
Autor: | Prothero, Donald R. |
Hersteller: | Columbia Univers. Press |
Maße: | 231 x 160 x 34 mm |
Von/Mit: | Donald R. Prothero |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 03.12.2024 |
Gewicht: | 0,806 kg |
Über den Autor
Donald R. Prothero is a paleontology and geology researcher, teacher, and author. He is adjunct professor of geological sciences at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, and research associate in vertebrate paleontology at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. His Columbia University Press books include The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks: Tales of Important Geological Puzzles and the People Who Solved Them (2018), The Story of the Dinosaurs in 25 Discoveries: Amazing Fossils and the People Who Found Them (2019), and The Story of Evolution in 25 Discoveries: The Evidence and the People Who Found It (2020).
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Rare Earth
2. In the Beginning
3. Moonstruck
4. Faint Young Sun
5. The Oceans Form
6. GASP: Oxygen in the Atmosphere
7. Planet of the Scum
8. Snowball Earth
9. Plankton Power
10. Greenhouse of the Trilobites
11. Mass Extinctions: The Ordovician Event
12. The Devonian Crises
13. The First Forests
14. The Pangean Icehouse
15. The "Great Dying"
16. From Icehouse to Greenhouse: The Triassic and Jurassic
17. Greenhouse of the Dinosaurs
18. The Death of the Dinosaurs: The End-Cretaceous Extinctions
19. Return of the Greenhouse: The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum
20. From Greenhouse to Icehouse: The Eocene-Oligocene Transition
21. American Serengeti
22. Ice Planet: The Pleistocene Ice Ages
23. The Death of the Megamammals
24. The Holocene: Climate and Human Civilization
25. The Future Greenhouse Planet
Index
Acknowledgments
1. Rare Earth
2. In the Beginning
3. Moonstruck
4. Faint Young Sun
5. The Oceans Form
6. GASP: Oxygen in the Atmosphere
7. Planet of the Scum
8. Snowball Earth
9. Plankton Power
10. Greenhouse of the Trilobites
11. Mass Extinctions: The Ordovician Event
12. The Devonian Crises
13. The First Forests
14. The Pangean Icehouse
15. The "Great Dying"
16. From Icehouse to Greenhouse: The Triassic and Jurassic
17. Greenhouse of the Dinosaurs
18. The Death of the Dinosaurs: The End-Cretaceous Extinctions
19. Return of the Greenhouse: The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum
20. From Greenhouse to Icehouse: The Eocene-Oligocene Transition
21. American Serengeti
22. Ice Planet: The Pleistocene Ice Ages
23. The Death of the Megamammals
24. The Holocene: Climate and Human Civilization
25. The Future Greenhouse Planet
Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2024 |
---|---|
Genre: | Umwelt |
Produktart: | Nachschlagewerke |
Rubrik: | Ökologie |
Medium: | Buch |
ISBN-13: | 9780231203586 |
ISBN-10: | 0231203586 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Gebunden |
Autor: | Prothero, Donald R. |
Hersteller: | Columbia Univers. Press |
Maße: | 231 x 160 x 34 mm |
Von/Mit: | Donald R. Prothero |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 03.12.2024 |
Gewicht: | 0,806 kg |
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