Catastrophes and evolution : astronomical foundations : the 1988 BAAS Mason Meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society at Oxford, September 6th, 1988

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Catastrophes and evolution : astronomical foundations : the 1988 BAAS Mason Meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society at Oxford, September 6th, 1988

with presentations by Walter Alvarez ... [et al.]

Cambridge University Press, 1989

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内容説明

This book comprises a collection of review articles addressing the possible connections between comets, impacts and mass extinctions from an astronomical and evolutionary perspective.

目次

  • Uniformitarianism and the response of earth scientists to the theory of impact crises, W.Alvarez et al
  • major wildfires at the cretaceous-tertiary boundary, I.Gilmour et al
  • hypervelocity impact cratering - a catastrophic terrestrial geologic process, R.A.F.Grieve
  • catastrophism in geology, A.Hallam
  • on the frequency of reversals of the geomagnetic dipole, K.M.Creer and P.C.Pal
  • terrestrial catastrophism and galactic cycles, W.M.Napier
  • meteoroid streams and the zodical dust cloud, D.Olsson-Steel
  • cometary dynamics - the inner core of the Oort cloud, M.E.Bailey
  • periodic mass extinctions - some astronomical difficulties, A.W.Wolfendale and D.A.Wilkinson.

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BA0793421X
  • ISBN
    • 0521374200
  • 出版国コード
    uk
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    Cambridge
  • ページ数/冊数
    xii, 239 p.
  • 大きさ
    24 cm
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