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Author:   William A. Berggren ,  John A. Van Couvering
Publisher:   Princeton University Press
Imprint:   Princeton University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.652kg
ISBN:  

9780691612683

ISBN 10:   0691612684
Pages:   478
Publication Date:   14 July 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

"*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. v*Foreword, pg. xi*Introduction, pg. 1*Chapter 1. Toward the Vindication of Punctuational Change, pg. 9*Chapter 2. Perfection, Continuity, and Common Sense in Historical Geology, pg. 35*Chapter 3. Reflections on the ""Rare Event"" and Related Concepts in Geology, pg. 77*Chapter 4. The Stratigraphic Code and what it implies, pg. 91*Chapter 5. Statistical Sedimentation and Magnetic Polarity Stratigraphy, pg. 101*Chapter 6. Mass Extinction: Unique or Recurrent Causes?, pg. 115*Chapter 7. The Two Phanerozoic Supercycles, pg. 129*Chapter 8. The Fabric of Cretaceous Marine Extinctions, pg. 151*Chapter 10. Changes in The Angiosperm Flora Across the Cretaceoustertiary Boundary, pg. 279*Chapter 11. Palynological Evidence for Change in Continental Floras at the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary, pg. 315*Chapter 12. Mammal Evolution near the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary, pg. 339*Chapter 13. Terminal Cretaceous Extinctions Of Large Reptiles, pg. 373*Chapter 14. Low Sea Levels, Droughts, and Mammalian Extinctions, pg. 387*Chapter 15. Eustasy, Geoid Changes, and Multiple Geophysical Interaction, pg. 395*Chapter 16. On two Kinds of Rapid Faunal Turnover, pg. 417*Chapter 17. The Phanerozoic ""Crisis"" as Viewed from the Miocene, pg. 437*Chapter 18. Marine Mineral Resources and Uniformitarianism, pg. 449"

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