The mountains of Saint Francis : discovering the geologic events that shaped our earth /

Walter Alvarez and his team made one of the most astonishing scientific discoveries of the twentieth century--that an asteroid smashed into the earth 65 million years ago, exterminating the dinosaurs. Alvarez had the first glimmer of that amazing insight when he noticed something odd in a rock outcr...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Alvarez, Walter, 1940-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : W.W. Norton, [2009]
Edition:	1st ed.
Subjects:	Geology > History.