The ends of the world : volcanic apocalypses, lethal oceans, and our quest to understand Earth's past mass extinctions / Peter Brannen.
Title:
The ends of the world : volcanic apocalypses, lethal oceans, and our quest to understand Earth's past mass extinctions / Peter Brannen.
Author:
Brannen, Peter, author.
ISBN:
9780062364807
Personal Author:
Physical Description:
x, 322 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
Abstract:
As new groundbreaking research suggests that climate change played a major role in the most extreme catastrophes in the planet's history, award-winning science journalist Peter Brannen takes us on a wild ride through the planet's five mass extinctions and, in the process, offers us a glimpse of our increasingly dangerous future.
