Under a green sky : global warming, the mass extinctions of the past, and what they can tell us about our future / Peter D. Ward.
More than 200 million years ago, a cataclysm known as the Permian extinction destroyed nearly 97 percent of all living things. Its origins have long been a puzzle. Paleontologist Ward, fresh from helping prove that an asteroid had killed the dinosaurs, turned to the Permian problem, and he has come...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Smithsonian Books/Collins,
2007.
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| Edition: | First Smithsonian Books edition. |
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Format: | Book |