The ends of the world : volcanic apocalypses, lethal oceans, and our quest to understand Earth's past mass extinctions
by Brannen, Peter, 1983- (Author)
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... Full description
- 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.