Keywords:
Archaeology.
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Electronic books.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (241 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9783319225128
Series Statement:
Modern Approaches in Solid Earth Sciences Series ; v.10
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=4084169
DDC:
304.2
Language:
English
Note:
Intro -- Foreword -- Prologue -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Early Earth Systems -- 1.1 Archaean and Proterozoic Atmospheres -- 1.2 Early Biospheres -- 1.3 Greenhouse States and Glaciations -- Chapter 2: Phanerozoic Life and Mass Extinctions of Species -- 2.1 Acraman Impact and Acritarchs Radiation -- 2.2 Cambrian and Late Ordovician Mass Extinction -- 2.3 Late and End-Devonian Mass Extinctions -- 2.4 Late Permian and Permian-Triassic Mass Extinctions -- 2.5 End-Triassic Mass Extinction -- 2.6 Jurassic-Cretaceous Extinction -- 2.7 K-T (Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary) Mass Extinction -- 2.8 Paleocene-Eocene Extinction -- 2.9 The End-Eocene Freeze -- Chapter 3: Cenozoic Biological Evolution (by Colin Groves) -- 3.1 The Evolution of Mammals -- 3.2 From Primates to Humans -- 3.3 From Genetic Evolution to Cultural Evolution -- Chapter 4: Fire and the Biosphere -- 4.1 An Incendiary Biosphere -- 4.2 The Deep-Time History of Fire -- 4.3 Fire and Pre-historic Human Evolution -- 4.4 Neolithic Burning and Early Civilizations -- Chapter 5: The Anthropocene -- 5.1 The Modern Atmosphere -- 5.2 Neolithic Burning and Early Global Warming -- 5.3 The Great Carbon Oxidation Event -- 5.4 The Sixth Mass Extinction of Species -- 5.5 The Faustian Bargain -- 5.6 The Post-anthropocene World -- Chapter 6: Rare Earth -- Chapter 7: Prometheus: An Epilogue -- References -- About the Book and the Authors -- Index.
