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NERC - What caused the five past mass extinctions?
... mass extinctions A sixth mass extinction? Science highlights Grants and studentships Using NERC science Careers Publications Press News and events About this site Skip to content What caused the five past mass extinctions? Approx. date Impact Likely cause 65 million years ago Wiped out the dinosaurs and nearly half of the major groups of marine animals Asteroid 207 million years ago Extinction ...
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Oceanography: Changes during the Late Devonian Mass Extinction
... 9. Terminal Cretaceous Climate Change 6. Palaeoceanographic changes during the Late Devonian Mass Extinction Personnel Postgraduate Student: Supervisor: Collaborators: Dave Bond Dr P. Wignall Greg Racki ( ... Geneseo) Funding Project dates: January 2001 to December 2003 Summary The Late Devonian mass extinction witnessed the collapse of several ecosystems, including reefs and the planktonic food chain ...
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FLORA OF NORTH AMERICA - Volume 1, Chapter 1
... . This shifting of wind belts is significant in regions intermediate between different air mass systems; these transition zones experience contrasting weather conditions at opposite seasons. In North America ... occurred at the end of the Cretaceous. This cataclysm may have been responsible for mass extinction of living groups (volcanism is given as the alternative explanation of this phenomenon; ...
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UC Berkeley Center for Forestry: Horace Albright List
... on our Natural Environment and a Challenge for Every Industrial Society. Norman Myers. 1986. Tackling Mass Extinction of Species: A Great Creative Challenge. Marion Clawson. 1987. Achieving Agreement on Natural Resource Use ...
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Center for Forestry-Lecture Series
... on our Natural Environment and a Challenge for Every Industrial Society. Norman Myers. 1986. Tackling Mass Extinction of Species: A Great Creative Challenge. Marion Clawson. 1987. Achieving Agreement on Natural Resource Use ...
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ASPB - Meetings - The Biology of Transpiration 2006
... (Sponsored by New Phytologist) Jennifer McElwain (University College Dublin) - Tracking long term carbon cycle dynamics, mass extinction and global catastrophes using fossil plant stomatal frequency Dominique Bergmann (Stanford University) - Genetic and Genomic ...
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Links for Palaeobotanists 1
... , Wildfire ... Palaeoclimate Tree Ring Research ... Evolution & Extinction Mass Extinction, P-Tr Extinction, Tr-J Extinction ... Selected Geology Geological Timescale, Palaeogeogr., ... Extinction. Will Dunham (Reuters), Space.com: Did Triassic Asteroid Impact Spare the Dinosaurs? Robert Sanders, Public Information Office, University of California at Berkeley: New evidence links mass extinction ...
www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de

FMNH: Virtual Exhibitions: The History of Life
... with life | Life spread to land | The golden age of fish | Forests of sporiferous plants | Mass extinction | Dinosaurs appeared | First birds | Flowering plants took over | Cenozoic era Finnish Museum of Natural History ...
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NERC - The sixth great extinction
... Earlier mass extinctions A sixth mass extinction? Science highlights Grants and studentships Using NERC science Careers Publications Press News and events About this site Skip to content The sixth great extinction ... the same fate as butterflies we could be in the midst of another mass extinction. Scientists estimate that extinction rates today are about 1000 times higher than the background rates ...
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Open Directory - Science: Earth Sciences: Paleontology: Extinction
... extinction events. The Late Devonian Mass Extinction - A professional technical paper discussing whether the Late Devonian (Frasnian-Famennian) mass extinction was initiated by an extraterrestrial impact or an earth-bound event. Mass Extinction - A mathematical model for mass extinction. "Extinction ...
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