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- Catastrophes and Earth History: The New Uniformitarianism
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- 2014
- Published by: Princeton University Press
- Series: Princeton Series in Geology and Paleontology
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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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Table of Contents
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- Introduction
- pp. 3-6
- Part I. The Concept of Catastrophe as a Natural Agent
- Part II. The Cretaceous/Tertiary Boundary: A Case in Point
- 7. THE TWO PHANEROZOIC SUPERCYCLES
- pp. 129-150
- Part III. Catastrophic Processes in the Geological Record
- 16. On Two Kinds of Rapid Faunal Turnover
- pp. 417-436
- Part IV. Catastrophes and the Real World
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