Night Comes to the Cretaceous Comets, Craters, Controversy, and the Last Days of the Dinosaurs - A Harvest Book
1st Harvest Edition
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What killed the dinosaurs? For more than a century, this question has been one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in science. But, in 1980, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Luis Alvarez and his son, Walter, proposed a radical answer: 65 million years ago an asteroid or comet as big as Mt. Everest slammed into the earth, raising a dust cloud vast enough to cause mass extinction. A revolutionary idea that challenged the ice-age extinction theory, the asteroid-impact theory was scorned and derided by the science community. But after years of bitter debate and intense research, an astonishing discovery was made-an immense impact crater in the Yucatán Peninsula that was identified as Ground Zero. The Alvarezes had their proof. A dramatic scientific detective story, Night Comes to the Cretaceous is a brilliant example of science at work-in the trenches, complete with passionate struggles and occasional victories.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780156007030 |
Publisher: | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Imprint: | Mariner Books |
Pub date: | 23 Sep 1999 |
Edition: | 1st Harvest Edition |
DEWEY: | 576.84 |
DEWEY edition: | 21 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 272 |
Weight: | 408g |
Height: | 228mm |
Width: | 154mm |
Spine width: | 21mm |