By Donald R. Prothero
ISBN-10: 0231146604
ISBN-13: 9780231146609
Donald R. Prothero's technology books mix best learn with first-person narratives of discovery, injecting heat and familiarity right into a career that has a lot to provide nonspecialists. Bringing his trademark sort and wit to an more and more proper topic of shock, Prothero hyperlinks the weather adjustments that experience happened over the last 2 hundred million years to their results on vegetation and animals. particularly, he contrasts the extinctions that ended the Cretaceous interval, which burnt up the dinosaurs, with these of the later Eocene and Oligocene epochs.
Prothero starts with the "greenhouse of the dinosaurs," the global-warming episode that ruled the Age of Dinosaurs and the early Age of Mammals. He describes the amazing creatures that after populated the earth and attracts on his stories gathering fossils within the enormous Badlands of South Dakota to cartoon their global. Prothero then discusses the expansion of the 1st Antarctic glaciers, which marked the Eocene-Oligocene transition, and stocks his personal anecdotes of excavations and controversies between colleagues that experience formed our knowing of the modern and prehistoric world.
The quantity concludes with observations approximately Nisqually Glacier and different destinations that exhibit how worldwide warming is going on a lot speedier than formerly estimated, irrevocably altering the stability of the earth's thermostat. enticing scientists and normal readers alike, Greenhouse of the Dinosaurs connects occasions throughout millions of millennia to clarify the human possibility to traditional weather change.
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