Paul B. Wignall

Broschiertes Buch

The Worst of Times

How Life on Earth Survived Eighty Million Years of Extinctions

Beschreibung

Two hundred sixty million years ago, life on Earth suffered wave after wave of cataclysmic extinctions, with the worst wiping out nearly every species on the planet. The Worst of Times delves into the mystery behind these extinctions and sheds light on the fateful role the primeval supercontinent, known as Pangea, might have played in causing these

Autor

Paul B. Wignall is professor of paleoenvironments at the University of Leeds.

Produktdetails

• Princeton Science Library
• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 139mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 343g
• ISBN-13: 9780691176024
• ISBN-10: 0691176027
• Artikelnr.: 46969715

Rezensionen

"[Wignall] presents a sound examination of an 80-million-year span, which began nearly 260 million years ago, that is considered by scientists to have been the most extreme extinction event in Earth's history . . . . [A] great example of scientific sleuthing.--Publishers Weekly