The New Catastrophism: The Importance of the Rare Event in Geological HistoryCambridge University Press, 19 Oca 1995 - 252 sayfa Rare and violent events through geological time are the theme of this readable and thought-provoking view of the Earth's history. The evidence for episodes and rare "catastrophic" happenings have been gleaned from the geological record in the author's travels all over the world. Such events are shown to dominate over the gradual and continuous processes that we see in the record of the history of the Earth. From hurricanes to episodic evolution, from colliding continents to asteroid impacts--the importance of these events are presented with many illustrations, both pictorial and anecdotal. |
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A much misunderstood man | 1 |
Magnolias and marigolds hippos and hiatuses | 7 |
Modern terrestrial deposits | 19 |
Ancient terrestrial deposits | 41 |
Modern shorelines | 65 |
Ancient shorelines | 79 |
Ancient platform deposits | 93 |
Offshore deposits ancient and modern | 103 |
Sudden storms are short | 115 |
Evolution by accident | 129 |
Periodic plutonism | 153 |
Its the only present weve got | 165 |
Jupiter or Pluto? | 175 |
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Africa Ager Alps ancient basalt Basin beach beds bivalves blamed brachiopods burrows called carbonate deposition Carboniferous catastrophic Chalk changes Chapter coast coral crater Cretaceous desert Devonian dinosaurs discussed earth history earthquake England environment Eocene episodic eruption Europe evaporites evidence evolution example extra-terrestrial fauna Figure flood forest Formation fossil record geological record geologists glaciations Grand Canyon happened High Atlas hurricanes impact iridium island Japan lake Lake Nyos land Late lava Libya limestones Lower Jurassic Lyell mammals marine mass extinctions Mesozoic million Miocene modern Morocco mountain North North Island north-west northern notably obvious ocean palaeontologists past Permian Photo DVA phyletic gradualism plants Pleistocene Pliensbachian preserved presumably probably recent reefs River rocks sand Sandstone sandy sediments seen shoreline South Wales southern species storm stratigraphical sudden suggested Swansea Tertiary thick Toarcian trace fossils trees Triassic tropical uniformitarianism Upper Jurassic volcanic Zealand