Catastrophes and Lesser Calamities: The Causes of Mass Extinctions - ISBN:0192806688

Catastrophes and Lesser Calamities: The Causes of Mass Extinctions

Date: 15 April 2011, 12:08

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As with the disaster in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, it isn't a matter of "if" but of "when" the event will occur. The events as they occur through time, however, form an irregular curve with many small peaks punctuated with the random introduction of a few very big ones. The issue for disaster planners and others is that of prediction and preparation, so an effort is made to find a "periodicity" in the data that isn't necessarily there to find. This sounds very much like Dr. Hallam's discussion of the attempts to pin down a periodicity in the data of extinction events. Humans are very good at seeing patterns in random data, but ultimately all that can be said is that "if it has happened, it can happen."
I'd recommend the book to anyone with an interest in paleontology, paleoecology, and extinction events. It would make a lovely book for an introductory course on earth history, or in paleontology, and an excellent syllabus entry for a course in earth science for teachers.
A wonderful book, full of information, and well written.

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