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Greenhouse of the Dinosaurs
Prothero, Donald R.
Éditeur : COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS
ISBN papier: 9780231146609
Parution : 2009
Code produit : 1222467
Catégorisation :
Livres /
Science /
Sciences de la terre /
Ouvrages généraux
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| Livre papier | En rupture de stock** |
Prix membre : 30,94 $ Prix non-membre : 34,38 $ |
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Description
Donald R. Prothero's science books combine straightforward research withfirst-person narratives of discovery, injecting warmth and familiarity into aprofession that desperately needs a more appealing approach to nonspecialists.Bringing his trademark style to an increasingly relevant subject of concern,Prothero links the climate changes that have occurred over the past 200 millionyears to their effects on plants and animals, especially contrasting the extinctionsthat ended the Cretaceous period, which wiped out the dinosaurs, with those of thelater Eocene and Oligocene epochs.Prothero begins with the"greenhouse of the dinosaurs," the global-warming episode that dominated the Age ofDinosaurs and the early Age of Mammals. He describes the remarkable creatures thatonce populated the earth and uses his experiences collecting fossils in the BigBadlands of South Dakota to sketch their world. He then discusses the growth of thefirst Antarctic glaciers, which marked the Eocene-Oligocene transition. In followingthis dramatic transformation, Prothero shares his anecdotes of excavations andactivists and illuminates the controversies between colleagues that shape ourunderstanding of the contemporary and prehistoric world. He concludes withobservations about Nisqually Glacier and other locations that prove global warmingis happening much quicker than previously predicted, irrevocably changing thebalance of the earth's thermostat.
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