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Carboniferous Giants and Mass Extinction
The Late Paleozoic Ice Age World
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George McGhee
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English
Published/Copyright:
2018
About this book
300 million years ago, dog-sized scorpions and millipedes walked the earth and tropical rainforests towered into the sky. George R. McGhee Jr. explores that ancient world, explaining its origins, its downfall in the end-Permian mass extinction, and its legacies, to offer insight into past and present extinction events and climate change.
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George R. McGhee Jr. is Distinguished Professor of Paleobiology at Rutgers University and a fellow of the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research in Klosterneuburg, Austria. He has held research positions at the University of Tubingen, the Field Museum of Natural History, and the American Museum of Natural History. His books include The Late Devonian Mass Extinction: The Frasnian/Famennian Crisis (1996); Theoretical Morphology: The Concept and Its Applications (1999); and When the Invasion of Land Failed: The Legacy of the Devonian Extinctions (2013), from Columbia University Press.
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Peter E. Isaacson, University of Idaho:
Carboniferous Giants and Mass Extinction is comprehensive and well researched, and provides fascinating insights into the complex Carboniferous world. It has amazing presentation, including depth, perception, and interpretation, and the writing style is readable and captivating. This work will be a valuable reference for geology students and others interested in past earth climates.
Carboniferous Giants and Mass Extinction is comprehensive and well researched, and provides fascinating insights into the complex Carboniferous world. It has amazing presentation, including depth, perception, and interpretation, and the writing style is readable and captivating. This work will be a valuable reference for geology students and others interested in past earth climates.
Hermann Pfefferkorn, University of Pennsylvania:
Carboniferous Giants and Mass Extinction is a superb and unique synthesis of the current knowledge of processes and conditions during the Late Paleozoic, incorporating the results from all subdisciplines of the earth and life sciences. McGhee demonstrates his expertise and knowledge in all the subdisciplines in a magnificent way. The book is a pleasure to read and at the same time erudite.
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Contents
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Preface
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1. Harbingers of the Late Paleozoic Ice Age
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2. The Big Chill
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3. The Late Carboniferous Ice World
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4. Giants in the Earth . . .
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5. The End of the Late Paleozoic Ice Age
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6. The End of the Paleozoic World
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7 .The Legacy of the Late Paleozoic Ice Age
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Notes
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References
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Index
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September 24, 2018
eBook ISBN:
9780231543385
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50 figures
eBook ISBN:
9780231543385
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Professional and scholarly;
