The Resource The ends of the world : volcanic apocalypses, lethal oceans, and our quest to understand Earth's past mass extinctions, Peter Brannen
The ends of the world : volcanic apocalypses, lethal oceans, and our quest to understand Earth's past mass extinctions, Peter Brannen
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The item The ends of the world : volcanic apocalypses, lethal oceans, and our quest to understand Earth's past mass extinctions, Peter Brannen represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Yuma County Library District.
This item is available to borrow from 3 library branches.
- Summary
- "As new groundbreaking research suggests that climate change played a major role in the most extreme catastrophes in the planet's history, award-winning science journalist Peter Brannen takes us on a wild ride through the planet's five mass extinctions and, in the process, offers us a glimpse of our increasingly dangerous future."--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- x, 322 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Contents
-
- Introduction
- Beginnings
- The end-Ordovician mass extinction
- The late Devonian mass extinction
- The end-Permian mass extinction
- The end-Triassic mass extinction
- The end-Cretaceous mass extinction
- The end-Pleistocene mass extinction
- The near future
- The last extinction
- Isbn
- 9780062364807
- Label
- The ends of the world : volcanic apocalypses, lethal oceans, and our quest to understand Earth's past mass extinctions
- Title
- The ends of the world
- Title remainder
- volcanic apocalypses, lethal oceans, and our quest to understand Earth's past mass extinctions
- Statement of responsibility
- Peter Brannen
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "As new groundbreaking research suggests that climate change played a major role in the most extreme catastrophes in the planet's history, award-winning science journalist Peter Brannen takes us on a wild ride through the planet's five mass extinctions and, in the process, offers us a glimpse of our increasingly dangerous future."--
- Assigning source
- From publisher's website
- Cataloging source
- YDX
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1983-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Brannen, Peter
- Dewey number
- 576.8/4
- Illustrations
-
- illustrations
- plates
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Mass extinctions
- Paleoclimatology
- Climatic changes
- Label
- The ends of the world : volcanic apocalypses, lethal oceans, and our quest to understand Earth's past mass extinctions, Peter Brannen
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-308) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction -- Beginnings -- The end-Ordovician mass extinction -- The late Devonian mass extinction -- The end-Permian mass extinction -- The end-Triassic mass extinction -- The end-Cretaceous mass extinction -- The end-Pleistocene mass extinction -- The near future -- The last extinction
- Control code
- ocn959036926
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- x, 322 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780062364807
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations (chiefly color)
- System control number
- (OCoLC)959036926
- Label
- The ends of the world : volcanic apocalypses, lethal oceans, and our quest to understand Earth's past mass extinctions, Peter Brannen
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-308) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction -- Beginnings -- The end-Ordovician mass extinction -- The late Devonian mass extinction -- The end-Permian mass extinction -- The end-Triassic mass extinction -- The end-Cretaceous mass extinction -- The end-Pleistocene mass extinction -- The near future -- The last extinction
- Control code
- ocn959036926
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- x, 322 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780062364807
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations (chiefly color)
- System control number
- (OCoLC)959036926
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