T. rex and the Crater of Doom (eBook)

Walter Alvarez (Autor)

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2013
208 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-4740-2 (ISBN)

Infos

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, one of the Berkeley scientists who discovered evidence of the impact, tells the story behind the development of the initially controversial theory. It is a saga of high adventure in remote locations, of arduous data collection and intellectual struggle, of long periods of frustration ended by sudden breakthroughs, of friendships made and lost, and of the exhilaration of discovery that forever altered our understanding of Earth's geological history.

Autor

Walter Alvarez is professor of geology at the University of California, Berkeley.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.6.2013
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Science Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Science Library
• Vorwort: Carl Zimmer
• Zusatzinfo: 8 color plates. 15 halftones. 2 line illus.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Mineralogie / Paläontologie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Anhydrite • apennine mountains • Astronomer • Astronomy • Atmosphere of Earth • bedrock • binary star • Calcite • Calcium • Calcium Carbonate • Calculation • Carbon dioxide • catastrophism • Cenozoic • Chicxulub crater • Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 • continental crust • Continental Drift • Continental margin • Cretaceous • Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event • Crust (geology) • Dale Russell • Deccan Traps • Deep sea • disaster • earth • ejecta • Ejecta blanket • Erosion • extinction event • feldspar • foraminifera • Formation and evolution of the Solar System • Frank Asaro • Geochemistry • geological survey • geologist • Geology • Geomagnetic reversal • Geophysics • Gerta Keller • Gubbio • Impact Crater • Impact event • inference • Iridium anomaly • Jack Sepkoski • Jupiter • Lava • Maastrichtian • Manson crater • Measurement • Mesozoic • Meteor Crater • Meteorite • microscope • Molecule • Montanari (crater) • mudstone • Neutron Activation • Neutron Activation Analysis • nitrogen • Oceanic basin • Oceanic Crust • olivine • outcrop • oxygen • paleontology • physicist • platelet • Plate Tectonics • Plutonium-244 • Principles of Geology • pyroxene • Quantity • Radioactive decay • Sand • Sanidine • Scientist • seawater • Sediment • sedimentary rock • Seismic Wave • Seismology • Shocked quartz • Stevns Klint • Stratigraphy • Submarine landslide • thrust fault • Trace Element • Tsunami • Tsunami deposit • Types of volcanic eruptions • Uniformitarianism • Vincent Courtillot • volcanic rock • volcanism • Walter Alvarez • year
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-4740-0 / 1400847400
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-4740-2 / 9781400847402