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
Cambridge University Press, 1989
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This book comprises a collection of review articles addressing the possible connections between comets, impacts and mass extinctions from an astronomical and evolutionary perspective.
Table of Contents
- 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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