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Chapter 16. On two Kinds of Rapid Faunal Turnover

Chapters in this book

  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
Catastrophes and Earth History
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https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400853281.417

Chapters in this book

  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
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