Catastrophes and lesser calamities : the causes of mass extinctions /

"In Catastrophes and Lesser Calamities, geologist Tony Hallam takes us on a tour of the Earth's history, and of the cataclysmic events and more gradual extinctions that have punctuated life on Earth during the past 500 million years"--Jacket.

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Main Author: Hallam, A. 1933- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
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