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  title info:
    title: Chicxulub: The Impact and Tsunami
    sub title: The Story of the Largest Known Asteroid to Hit the Earth
  name:
    name part: Shonting, David.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Ezrailson, Cathy.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXIV, 124 p. 69 illus., 7 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This book tells the story of the catastrophic impact of the giant 10 Km asteroid Chicxulub into the ancient Gulf of Mexico 65.5 million years ago. The book begins with a discussion of the nature of asteroids and the likelihood of future Earth-impacts. The story then turns to the discovery of a global sediment layer attributed to the fallout from the impact and a piecing together of the evidence that revealed a monster crater, buried under the Gulf. Reviewed is the myriad of geological and fossil evidence that suggested the disastrous sequence of events occurring when a "nuclear-like" explosion ripped through the sea, Earth, and atmosphere, thus forming the mega-crater and tsunami. The aftermath of the Chicxulub's event initiated decades and more of major global climate changes including a "Nuclear Winter" of freezing darkness and blistering greenhouse warming. A chapter is dedicated to the science of tsunamis and their model generation, including a portrayal of the globally rampaging Chicxulub waves. The asteroid's global devastation killed off some 70% of animal and plant life including the dinosaurs. The study of an ancient Cambrian fossil bed suggests how "roll of the dice" events can affect the future evolution of life on Earth. We see how Chicxulub's apparent destruction of the dinosaurs, followed by the their replacement with small mammals, altered forever the progress of human evolution. This book presents a fascinating glimpse through the lens of the natural sciences - the geology, climatology, and oceanography, of the effects of an enormous astronomical event.
  table of contents: Preface -- Prologue: the arrival -- Chapter 1: The orbiting objects -- Chapter 2: The tale of chicxulub -- Chapter 3: A scenario for the chicxulub impact and energies -- Chapter 4: The chicxulub tsunami -- Chapter 5: Long term global effects -- Epilogue: Possible chicxulub effects on the path of human evolution.
  note: by David Shonting, Cathy Ezrailson.
  subject:
    topic: Popular works
  subject:
    topic: Historical geology
  subject:
    topic: Planetology
  subject:
    topic: Natural disasters
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy
  subject:
    topic: Astrophysics
  subject:
    topic: Cosmology
  subject:
    topic: Earth
  subject:
    topic: Geology
  subject:
    topic: Popular Science
  subject:
    topic: Popular Earth Science
  subject:
    topic: Historical Geology
  subject:
    topic: Popular Science in Astronomy
  subject:
    topic: Planetology
  subject:
    topic: Natural Hazards
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
  classification: QE1-996.5
  classification: 550
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer Praxis Books
  identifier: 9783319394879
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39487-9
  record info:
    record creation date: 160909
    record change date: 20160912224951.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-39487-9