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. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Edited by:
William A. Berggren,
John A. Van Couvering
Imprint: Princeton University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Spine: 24mm
Weight: 652g
ISBN: 9780691612683
ISBN 10: 0691612684
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
Pages: 478
Publication Date: 14 July 2014
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Professional and scholarly
,
Primary
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
"*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. v*Foreword, pg. xi*Introduction, pg. 1*Chapter 1. Toward the Vindication of Punctuational Change, pg. 9*Chapter 2. Perfection, Continuity, and Common Sense in Historical Geology, pg. 35*Chapter 3. Reflections on the ""Rare Event"" and Related Concepts in Geology, pg. 77*Chapter 4. The Stratigraphic Code and what it implies, pg. 91*Chapter 5. Statistical Sedimentation and Magnetic Polarity Stratigraphy, pg. 101*Chapter 6. Mass Extinction: Unique or Recurrent Causes?, pg. 115*Chapter 7. The Two Phanerozoic Supercycles, pg. 129*Chapter 8. The Fabric of Cretaceous Marine Extinctions, pg. 151*Chapter 10. Changes in The Angiosperm Flora Across the Cretaceoustertiary Boundary, pg. 279*Chapter 11. Palynological Evidence for Change in Continental Floras at the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary, pg. 315*Chapter 12. Mammal Evolution near the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary, pg. 339*Chapter 13. Terminal Cretaceous Extinctions Of Large Reptiles, pg. 373*Chapter 14. Low Sea Levels, Droughts, and Mammalian Extinctions, pg. 387*Chapter 15. Eustasy, Geoid Changes, and Multiple Geophysical Interaction, pg. 395*Chapter 16. On two Kinds of Rapid Faunal Turnover, pg. 417*Chapter 17. The Phanerozoic ""Crisis"" as Viewed from the Miocene, pg. 437*Chapter 18. Marine Mineral Resources and Uniformitarianism, pg. 449"
