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a new geology for the twenty-first century
Gradualism versus catastrophism -- Lyell's laws -- The Alvarez hypothesis -- Mass extinctions -- Kill curves and strangelove oceans -- Catastrophism and natural selection -- Impacts and extinctions : do they match up? -- The great dying : the end-Permian extinction -- Catastrophic volcanic eruptions and extinctions -- Ancient glaciers and impact deposits -- The Shiva hypothesis : comet showers and the galactic carrousel -- Geological upheavals and dark matter -- Epilogue : what does it all mean? : a new geology.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
New York : Columbia University Press, 2017