Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword xi
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I. The Concept of Catastrophe as a Natural Agent
6. Chapter 1. Toward the Vindication of Punctuational Change 9
7. Chapter 2. Perfection, Continuity, and Common Sense in Historical Geology 35
8. Chapter 3. Reflections on the "Rare Event" and Related Concepts in Geology 77
9. Chapter 4. The Stratigraphic Code and what it implies 91
10. Chapter 5. Statistical Sedimentation and Magnetic Polarity Stratigraphy 101
11. Part II. The Cretaceous/Tertiary Boundary: A Case in Point
12. Chapter 6. Mass Extinction: Unique or Recurrent Causes? 115
13. Chapter 7. The Two Phanerozoic Supercycles 129
14. Chapter 8. The Fabric of Cretaceous Marine Extinctions 151
15. Chapter 10. Changes in The Angiosperm Flora Across the Cretaceoustertiary Boundary 279
16. Chapter 11. Palynological Evidence for Change in Continental Floras at the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary 315
17. Chapter 12. Mammal Evolution near the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary 339
18. Chapter 13. Terminal Cretaceous Extinctions Of Large Reptiles 373
19. Part III. CATASTROPHIC PROCESSES IN THE GEOLOGICAL RECORD
20. Chapter 14. Low Sea Levels, Droughts, and Mammalian Extinctions 387
21. Chapter 15. Eustasy, Geoid Changes, and Multiple Geophysical Interaction 395
22. Chapter 16. On two Kinds of Rapid Faunal Turnover 417
23. Chapter 17. The Phanerozoic “Crisis” as Viewed from the Miocene 437
24. Part IV. Catastrophes and the Real World
25. Chapter 18. Marine Mineral Resources and Uniformitarianism 449