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Catastrophes and Earth History
The New Uniformitarianism
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2014
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This book, based on papers from a symposium at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, shows the necessity of developing a new philosophy in place of the classical uniformitarianism based only on processes familiar in human experience.
Originally published in 1984.
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Foreword
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Introduction
1 - Part I. The Concept of Catastrophe as a Natural Agent
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Chapter 1. Toward the Vindication of Punctuational Change
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Chapter 2. Perfection, Continuity, and Common Sense in Historical Geology
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Chapter 3. Reflections on the "Rare Event" and Related Concepts in Geology
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Chapter 4. The Stratigraphic Code and what it implies
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Chapter 5. Statistical Sedimentation and Magnetic Polarity Stratigraphy
101 - Part II. The Cretaceous/Tertiary Boundary: A Case in Point
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Chapter 6. Mass Extinction: Unique or Recurrent Causes?
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Chapter 7. The Two Phanerozoic Supercycles
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Chapter 8. The Fabric of Cretaceous Marine Extinctions
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Chapter 10. Changes in The Angiosperm Flora Across the Cretaceoustertiary Boundary
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Chapter 11. Palynological Evidence for Change in Continental Floras at the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary
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Chapter 12. Mammal Evolution near the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary
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Chapter 13. Terminal Cretaceous Extinctions Of Large Reptiles
373 - Part III. CATASTROPHIC PROCESSES IN THE GEOLOGICAL RECORD
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Chapter 14. Low Sea Levels, Droughts, and Mammalian Extinctions
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Chapter 15. Eustasy, Geoid Changes, and Multiple Geophysical Interaction
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Chapter 16. On two Kinds of Rapid Faunal Turnover
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Chapter 17. The Phanerozoic “Crisis” as Viewed from the Miocene
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Chapter 18. Marine Mineral Resources and Uniformitarianism
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Keywords for this book
Maastrichtian; Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event; Extinction event; Paleocene; Cretaceous; Hell Creek Formation; Foraminifera; Plate tectonics; Geology; Late Cretaceous; Cenomanian; Impact crater; Cenomanian-Turonian boundary event; Catastrophism; Epoch (geology); Crust (geology); Geophysics; Cenozoic; Geomagnetic reversal; Paris Basin (geology); Nuclear holocaust; Salinity; Geoid; Paleobiology; Geologist; Paleozoic; Holocene; Historical geology; Carbon dioxide; Principles of Geology; Meteor Crater; Mesozoic; Nebular hypothesis; Paleomagnetism; Geochemistry; Stratigraphy; Environmental disaster; Plutonism; Period (geology); Hypoxia (environmental); Permian–Triassic extinction event; Phanerozoic; Anoxic event; Paleoclimatology; Uniformitarianism; Earth science; Supercontinent; Tectonic uplift; North America; Polarity reversal (seismology); Magnetostratigraphy; Messinian salinity crisis; Orogeny; Extinction; Eocene; Paleoceanography; Lineation (geology); Pluton; Metamorphism; Creation myth; Continental collision; Paleontology; Diagenesis; Evolutionary radiation; Disaster; Climate change; Goniatite; Miocene; Nodule (geology); Impact event
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For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
