Earth in Flames: How an Asteroid Killed the Dinosaurs and How We Can Avoid a Similar Fate from Nuclear Winter - Hardcover
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780197799703ISBN-10:197799701UPC:9780197799703Book Category:ScienceBook Subcategory:Physics, Earth Sciences, Environmental Science (see also ChemistryBook Topic:Nuclear, Meteorology & Climatology, Environmental)Size:9.37 x 6.57 x 0.89 inchesWeight:1.2522Product ID:SC9EBFB9DB
Earth in Flames: How an Asteroid Killed the Dinosaurs and How We Can Avoid a Similar Fate from Nuclear Winter
Sixty-six million years ago an asteroid as large as Mt. Everest hit what is now the Yucatan Peninsula at a speed ten times faster than the fastest rifle bullet. Debris from the impact blew into space, re-entered the atmosphere as a swarm of shooting stars that burned the global forests and grasslands, leaving behind a thin global layer containing rock from the asteroid and from Mexico, and smoke...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780197799703ISBN-10:197799701UPC:9780197799703Book Category:ScienceBook Subcategory:Physics, Earth Sciences, Environmental Science (see also ChemistryBook Topic:Nuclear, Meteorology & Climatology, Environmental)Size:9.37 x 6.57 x 0.89 inchesWeight:1.2522Product ID:SC9EBFB9DB
Owen Brian Toon is a Professor in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society, the American Geophysical Union and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and winner of AGU's Roger Revelle Medal, and AMS's Carl-Gustaf Rossby...
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