From the Guajira Desert to the Apennines, and from Mediterranean microplates to the Mexican killer asteroid : honoring the career of Walter Alvarez /

"This volume pays tribute to the career and scientific accomplishments of Walter Alvarez with papers related to the many topics he has covered : tectonics of microplates, structural geology, paleomagnetics, Apennine sedimentary sequences, geoarchaeology and Roman volcanics, Big History, and the...

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Other Authors:	Alvarez, Walter, 1940- (honouree.), Koeberl, Christian, 1959- (Editor), Claeys, Philippe, 1961- (Editor), Montanari, Alessandro (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Boulder, Colorado, USA : The Geological Society of America, Inc., 2022.
Series:	Special papers (Geological Society of America) ; 557.
Subjects:	Alvarez, Walter, > 1940- Catastrophes (Geology) Extinction (Biology) Earth (Planet) > History. Geology, Structural. Geology, Stratigraphic. Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary. Archaeological geology. Geologists. United States. Biographies. History.

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Summary:	"This volume pays tribute to the career and scientific accomplishments of Walter Alvarez with papers related to the many topics he has covered : tectonics of microplates, structural geology, paleomagnetics, Apennine sedimentary sequences, geoarchaeology and Roman volcanics, Big History, and the discovery of evidence for a large asteroidal impact event at the Cretaceous-Tertiary (now Cretaceous-Paleogene) boundary site in Gubbio, Italy"--
Physical Description:	xiii, 600 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 28 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:	9780813725574 0813725577