Carboniferous Giants and Mass Extinction : : The Late Paleozoic Ice Age World / / George McGhee.
Picture a world of dog-sized scorpions and millipedes as long as a car; tropical rainforests with trees towering over 150 feet into the sky and a giant polar continent five times larger than Antarctica. That world was not imaginary; it was the earth more than 300 million years ago in the Carbonifero...
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Year of Publication: | 2018 |
Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. Harbingers of the Late Paleozoic Ice Age
- 2. The Big Chill
- 3. The Late Carboniferous Ice World
- 4. Giants in the Earth . . .
- 5. The End of the Late Paleozoic Ice Age
- 6. The End of the Paleozoic World
- 7 .The Legacy of the Late Paleozoic Ice Age
- Notes
- References
- Index