When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time. Michael Benton

When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time


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When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time Michael Benton
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc



The middle and late Devonian, a time when nearly every marine group of organisms suffered some degree of extinction, is littered with black shales. There are differing opinions on the exact time when Homo sapiens evolved from its most recent ancestor, Homo heidelbergensis, but that is to be expected. Once we put all that together we can produce our optimistic forecast of how long our Hollow Scene Mass Extinction Event will take to play out for us parochial, self-absorbed spinal column-possessing types. The period of time when the most significant extinction occurred, known as the Frasnian- Famennian mass extinction, lines up in time with the peak of Archaeopteris forests. And finally, the last While these can be toxic in and of themselves, what is just as damaging is what happens after all of these organisms die. As with nearly all carbon extraction, environmental problems abound. In recent years, many scientists have suggested that the so-called End-Triassic Extinction and at least four other known past die-offs were caused at least in part by mega-volcanism and resulting climate change. Download Free The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time. Our earth is very capable of becoming inhospitable to human life very quickly. Given the near-consensus mechanism of a big ole rock smacking down near the current-day Mexican Riviera,..probably the big dinos died quickly and smaller ones petered out over time. And I don't think species replace nearly as quickly as they die off. This is a book about the dramatic periods in the Earth's history called mass extinctions - short periods (by geological standards) when life nearly died out on Earth. Intensifying the carbon damage in the atmosphere will only hasten the climate issues that will eventually lead to mass extinction on the planet earth. However, they were The basalts analyzed in the study all came from the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province (CAMP), a series of huge eruptions known to have started around 200 million years ago, when nearly all land was massed into one huge continent.





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