Catastrophic episodes in earth history:
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London u.a.
Chapman and Hall
1989
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| Ausgabe: | 1. publ. |
| Schriftenreihe: | Topics in the earth sciences
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| Umfang: | XVII, 221 S. Ill., Kt. |
| ISBN: | 0412291908 0412292009 |
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/ CKnowieagemencs Series foreword XI xiii
Preface XV
1 Historical and legendary disasters 1
1.1 Natural disasters of historical record 1
1.2 Legendary accounts of floods 1
1.3 A naturalistic account of the deluge from the
17th century 3
1.4 The Ussher chronology 6
2 Obligatory catastrophism of the latter
17th century 7
2.1 Constraints on theorizing based on biblical chronology 7
2.2 Steno s prodromus 7
2.3 Hooke s views on fossils, floods and earthquakes 14
3 The antiquity of the Earth as perceived in
Neptunist and Plutonist theories of the
18th century 18
3.1 Neptunian theories 18
3.2 Hutton s Plutonist theory 25
3.3 Theoretical geology towards the end of the
18th century 31
4 Geology s heroic age 33
4.1 Geological isms of the early 19th century 33
4.2 The Wernerian Society 33
4.3 Playfair s Illustrations 34
4.4 Hall s experiments 35
4.5 Cuvier s catastrophism 36
4.6 Buckland s diluvialism 42
viii Contents
5 Uniformitarians and catastrophists of the
19th century 45
5.1 Lyellian uniformitarianism 45
5.2 The christening of uniformitarianism and
catastrophism 49
5.3 Sedgwick s criticism of the uniformitarian doctrine 50
5.4 Lyell s responses to his critics 51
5.5 Agassiz and the demise of diluvialism 53
5.6 Lyell s influence on Darwin 56
5.7 The Kelvin disturbance 58
5.8 Discovery of radioactivity 60
6 Meteorite craters 62
6.1 Impact and explosion craters 62
6.2 The Meteor Crater of Arizona 63
6.3 Other solitary explosion craters 69
6.4 Impact craters 70
6.5 Mixed clusters of impact and explosion craters 72
6.6 The Tungushka meteor 76
6.7 The rarity of meteorite craters 78
7 Cryptoexplosion structures 80
7.1 General features 80
7.2 Controversy concerning origin 80
7.3 A sampler of cryptoexplosion structures 83
7.4 Effects of explosive impacts on organisms 92
8 Mass extinctions 94
8.1 Major episodes 94
8.2 The search for periodicities 99
8.3 Selectivity in extinction events 106
9 Catastrophist scenarios for mass extinctions 108
9.1 The Alvarez hypothesis for terminal Cretaceous
extinctions 108
9.2 Evidence supportive of the Alvarez hypothesis 110
9.3 Consequences of impact and explosion of
extraterrestrial bodies 113
9.4 Radiation as a cause of mass extinctions 120
9.5 Bad water hypotheses 124
Contents ix
10 Extinction of the dinosaurs 129
10.1 Dinosaurmania 129
10.2 Discovery and naming 131
10.3 Points of general agreement concerning dinosaurs 131
10.4 Some hypotheses for extinction 132
10.5 Endotherms or ectotherms? 135
10.6 Bang or whimper? 137
11 Reactions to catastrophist hypotheses for mass
extinctions 141
11.1 Hypotheses invoking impacts of extraterrestrial bodies 141
11.2 Hypotheses invoking radiation 142
11.3 Problems with iridium and other platinum-group
metals 143
11.4 Evidence provided by microsphcrules 147
11.5 Arctic-spill hypothesis 148
12 Alternative hypotheses for mass extinctions 150
12.1 Related to volcanism 150
12.2 Related to changes in global temperature 156
12.3 Related to changes in sea-level 158
12.4 Related to history of plant life 162
13 The new catastrophism 166
13.1 Revival of uniformitarianism in the 20th century 166
13.2 A change in perspective 166
13.3 The impactors 167
13.4 Impact as a fundamental process in planetary evolution 170
13.5 Cosmic impacts and explosions 170
13.6 Giant impact theory of lunar origin 172
13.7 Catastrophic causes of mass extinctions 173
13.8 Status of ncocatastrophism 175
13.9 A revolution in the Earth and planetary sciences? 177
13.10 Progress of the extinction debate 179
13.11 A farewell to isms 180
References 182
Index 208
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