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- catalog abstract "The gorgons ruled the land long before there were any dinosaurs, until an environmental cataclysm 250 million years ago annihilated them--along with 90 percent of all plant and animal species on the planet--in an event so terrible even the extinction of the dinosaurs pales in comparison. For more than a decade, Ward and his colleagues have been searching South Africa's Karoo Desert for clues to this world: What were these animals like? How did they live and, more important, how did they die? In this book, Ward examines the fate of this little-known prehistoric animal and its contemporaries, the ancestors of the turtle, the crocodile, the lizard, and eventually dinosaurs. He offers theories on these mass extinctions and confronts the implications they hold for us.--From publisher description.".
- catalog contributor b13083273.
- catalog created "2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2004.".
- catalog description "Arriving -- Bones in the Karoo -- Gradual or sudden? -- Land and sea -- Karoo magnetics -- A change of rivers -- The stone house at Tussen die Riviere -- Retrieval -- The rate of killing -- Drawing conclusions -- Buckyballs -- A new kind of extinction -- Resolution -- Legacy and lessons of a catastrophe : are we living on a safe planet?".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-243) and index.".
- catalog description "The gorgons ruled the land long before there were any dinosaurs, until an environmental cataclysm 250 million years ago annihilated them--along with 90 percent of all plant and animal species on the planet--in an event so terrible even the extinction of the dinosaurs pales in comparison. For more than a decade, Ward and his colleagues have been searching South Africa's Karoo Desert for clues to this world: What were these animals like? How did they live and, more important, how did they die? In this book, Ward examines the fate of this little-known prehistoric animal and its contemporaries, the ancestors of the turtle, the crocodile, the lizard, and eventually dinosaurs. He offers theories on these mass extinctions and confronts the implications they hold for us.--From publisher description.".
- catalog extent "xxvii, 257 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Gorgon.".
- catalog identifier "0670030945 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Gorgon.".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Viking,".
- catalog relation "Gorgon.".
- catalog spatial "South Africa Karoo.".
- catalog spatial "South Africa Karroo.".
- catalog subject "576.8/4 21".
- catalog subject "Catastrophes (Geology)".
- catalog subject "Geology, Stratigraphic Permian.".
- catalog subject "Geology, Structural South Africa Karoo.".
- catalog subject "Geology, Structural South Africa Karroo.".
- catalog subject "QE674 .W37 2004".
- catalog tableOfContents "Arriving -- Bones in the Karoo -- Gradual or sudden? -- Land and sea -- Karoo magnetics -- A change of rivers -- The stone house at Tussen die Riviere -- Retrieval -- The rate of killing -- Drawing conclusions -- Buckyballs -- A new kind of extinction -- Resolution -- Legacy and lessons of a catastrophe : are we living on a safe planet?".
- catalog title "Gorgon : paleontology, obsession, and the greatest catastrophe in earth's history / Peter D. Ward.".
- catalog type "text".