Mass Extinction

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Elewa, Ashraf M.T. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2008.
Edition:1st ed. 2008.
Subjects:
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75916-4
Table of Contents:
  • Mass Extinction - a general view
  • Late Ordovician mass extinction
  • The End Ordovician; an ice age in the middle of a greenhouse
  • Silurian global events - at the tipping point of climate change
  • Late Devonian mass extinction
  • Late Permian mass extinction
  • Late Triassic mass extinction
  • Reexamination of the end-Triassic mass
  • Cenomanian/Turonian mass extinction of macroinvertebrates in the context of Paleoecology; A case study from North Wadi Qena, Eastern Desert, Egypt
  • K-Pg mass extinction
  • Causes of mass extinction at the K/Pg boundary: A case study from the North African Plate
  • Patterns and causes of mass extinction at the K/Pg boundary: Planktonic foraminifera from the North African Plate
  • Quaternary extinctions in Southeast Asia
  • Current mass extinction
  • Current insect extinctions.