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Author: David Brez Carlisle
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780804723923
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents a new explanation of the Cretaceious-Tertiary Boundary event.
Author: Trevor Palmer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-06-12
Total Pages: 560
ISBN-13: 9780521819282
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA readable account of the history of natural disasters throughout history.
Author: Allen A. Debus
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2002-06-07
Total Pages: 637
ISBN-13: 9781469721941
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDinosaur memories are hard to forget! Most who revel in the current renaissance in dinosaur science, art, fiction and movies, or who enjoy the other appealing prehistoric animals so well popularized by the media have fond recollections of what it was like growing up dinosaur. Together with wife Diane and his father Allen G. Debus, Allen A. Debus unveils treasured dinosaur memories and stories about prehistoric animals and paleo-people, spanning from the cold-blooded dinosaur era, to the modern wave dinosaur renaissance. Beginning with fondly recalled roadtrips to prehistoric places where T. rex still reigns, Dinosaur Memories ventures into the realm of thunder beasts and explores the rich pop-cultural appeal of prehistoric animals. If youve ever collected dinosaurs, enjoyed fossil hunting or visits to see the old bones in museums, Dinosaur Memories is a book youll still recall years from now! Thirty-five chapters are grouped into seven sections titled, Roads Into Prehistory, Thunder Beasts, Dinosaur Worlds, Fantasy Dinosaurs, Fossil Trickery, Paleo-people, and Rustlin up Dinos.
Author: Randy Moore
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2014-07-23
Total Pages: 502
ISBN-13: 0313393656
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProviding an appealing chronology of "all things dinosaur," this book covers these ancient creatures' roles and surprising importance in science, religion, and society at large. This exhaustive, up-to-date book contains more than 2,000 entries about dinosaurs and dinosaur-related topics. It provides not only detailed information about their discovery, underlying science, and recent technologies and theories but also encompasses all of the facets of dinosaurs in society—for example, their use in consumer marketing and promotion, popularization of dinosaurs in the media, as "proof" for both evolutionists and creationists to substantiate their claims about life's origins, and as cultural artifacts. Organized chronologically, the book offers an informative and entertaining timeline of how dinosaurs have appeared in science, religion, and society since they were discovered in the 1800s, covering everything from dinosaur museum displays to how dinosaurs served advocates of young-Earth creationism. This fascinating work enables a broad appreciation for the surprising significance of dinosaurs in many aspects of our daily lives and modern society.
Author: Allen A. Debus
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2024-10-04
Total Pages: 415
ISBN-13: 1476652740
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe incomprehensible notion of a very large chunk of ice or rock from outer space smashing into the Earth has only become mainstream within the past two centuries. Though early writers imagined the utterly fantastic consequences of comet collisions and speculated on the devastation they might wreak, it was not until the 1980s when scientists finally resolved that dinosaurs were extinguished by an asteroid 66 million years ago. This startling announcement captivated the media and tilted the science fiction world but in reality, history may have been punctuated repeatedly by such events. This book collects and analyzes ideas of asteroid, comet, and planetary impacts with Earth spanning two centuries, from the first realization of extinctions in fossil records to the new millennium, reflected in scores of sci-fi stories, films, and televised science documentaries. The author examines social and geopolitical fears tied to the prospect of a cosmic-borne catastrophe. Science, fiction, and speculation are artfully melded.
Author: W.F. McComas
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2006-04-11
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 0306472155
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first book to blend a justification for the inclusion of the history and philosophy of science in science teaching with methods by which this vital content can be shared with a variety of learners. It contains a complete analysis of the variety of tools developed thus far to assess learning in this domain. This book is relevant to science methods instructors, science education graduate students and science teachers.
Author: Paul D. Taylor
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004-11-11
Total Pages: 205
ISBN-13: 1139457977
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExtinction is the ultimate fate of all biological species - over 99 percent of the species that have ever inhabited the Earth are now extinct. The long fossil record of life provides scientists with crucial information about when species became extinct, which species were most vulnerable to extinction, and what processes may have brought about extinctions in the geological past. Key aspects of extinctions in the history of life are here reviewed by six leading palaeontologists, providing a source text for geology and biology undergraduates as well as more advanced scholars. Topical issues such as the causes of mass extinctions and how animal and plant life has recovered from these cataclysmic events that have shaped biological evolution are dealt with. This helps us to view the biodiversity crisis in a broader context, and shows how large-scale extinctions have had profound and long-lasting effects on the Earth's biosphere.
Author: Trevor Palmer
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 463
ISBN-13: 1461549019
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Controversy, Trevor Palmer fully documents how traditional gradualistic views of biological and geographic evolution are giving way to a catastrophism that credits cataclysmic events, such as meteorite impacts, for the rapid bursts and abrupt transitions observed in the fossil record. According to the catastrophists, new species do not evolve gradually; they proliferate following sudden mass extinctions. Placing this major change of perspective within the context of a range of ancient debates, Palmer discusses such topics as the history of the solar system, present-day extraterrestrial threats to earth, hominid evolution, and the fossil record.
Author: Burkhard O. Dressler
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Published: 1999-01-01
Total Pages: 478
ISBN-13: 9780813723396
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Huang Yunhui
Publisher: VSP
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9789067642668
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a collection of papers presented in the 30th International Geological Congress, held in Beijing, on mineralogy. The papers deal with topics on fine structures and crystallographic orientations in biogenic magnetite and thermodynamic properties of minerals.
