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- catalog abstract ""Impossible Extinction is about a remarkable journey. Every 225 million years the Earth, and all the life on it, completes one revolution around our Milky Way Galaxy. During this journey life is influenced by calamitous changes. Comets and asteroids strike the surface of the Earth, stars explode nearby, enormous volcanoes erupt and, more recently, humans litter the planet with waste. Many animals and plants become extinct during voyage, but humble microbes, simple creatures made of a single cell, survive this journey. This book takes a tour of the microbial world, from the coldest and deepest places on Earth to the hottest and highest, and witnesses some of the most catastrophic events that life can face. This remarkable story explains for the general reader how microbes have survived on Earth for over three billion years."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12797080.
- catalog created "c2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "c2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
- catalog description ""Impossible Extinction is about a remarkable journey. Every 225 million years the Earth, and all the life on it, completes one revolution around our Milky Way Galaxy. During this journey life is influenced by calamitous changes. Comets and asteroids strike the surface of the Earth, stars explode nearby, enormous volcanoes erupt and, more recently, humans litter the planet with waste. Many animals and plants become extinct during voyage, but humble microbes, simple creatures made of a single cell, survive this journey. This book takes a tour of the microbial world, from the coldest and deepest places on Earth to the hottest and highest, and witnesses some of the most catastrophic events that life can face. This remarkable story explains for the general reader how microbes have survived on Earth for over three billion years."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "The galactic roulette -- Primordial leftovers -- The microbial menagerie -- The record of catastrophe -- The sky falls in -- Supernova fry up -- Fire from below -- Intelligent stupidity -- The world is not enough?".
- catalog extent "ix, 181 p., [8] p. of plates :".
- catalog identifier "0521817366".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "c2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press,".
- catalog subject "2003 F-173".
- catalog subject "579/.17 21".
- catalog subject "Astronomy.".
- catalog subject "Catastrophes (Geology)".
- catalog subject "Disasters.".
- catalog subject "Environmental Microbiology.".
- catalog subject "Exobiology.".
- catalog subject "Extinction (Biology)".
- catalog subject "Extreme environments Microbiology.".
- catalog subject "Microbial ecology.".
- catalog subject "QR100 .C63 2003".
- catalog subject "QW 55 C666i 2003".
- catalog tableOfContents "The galactic roulette -- Primordial leftovers -- The microbial menagerie -- The record of catastrophe -- The sky falls in -- Supernova fry up -- Fire from below -- Intelligent stupidity -- The world is not enough?".
- catalog title "Impossible extinction : natural catastrophes and the supremacy of the microbial world / Charles S. Cockell.".
- catalog type "text".