Night Comes to the Cretaceous: Dinosaur Extinction and the Transformation of Modern Geology

Description

Author: Powell, James Lawrence

Publisher: W.H. Freeman & Company

Pub Date: 1998

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Book: Fair to Good.  Binding tight.  No marks.  A number of lower page edges have been bumped, one on page 137-38 has caused an approx. 1/8″ tear.  Light corner and edge wear.  Dust Jacket: Fair to Good.  One wear spot on lower spine.  Light corner and edge wear.

Notes: How Walter and Luis Alvarez’s Nobel Prize-winning theory of the Chicxulub asteroid striking the earth 65 million years, causing the end of the Cretaceous era, changed the course of geology (and a lot of other things).  The role of chance in science and the universe.