Princeton Series in Geology and Paleontology

Phanerozoic Diversity Patterns: Profiles in Macroevolution J. Valentine

Here twenty-one leading paleontologists use important refinements in fossil diversity data to provide critical evaluations of older hypotheses of diversification and extinction processes and to propose fresh interpretations.

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Eocene-Oligocene Climatic and Biotic Evolution Edited by Donald R. Prothero and William A. Berggren

The transition from the Eocene to the Oligocene epochs was the most significant event in earth history since the extinction of dinosaurs. As the first Antarctic ice sheets appeared, major extinctions and faunal turnovers took place on...

Catastrophes and Earth History: The New Uniformitarianism Edited by William A. Berggren and John A. Van Couvering

This book, based on papers from a symposium at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, shows the necessity of developing a new philosophy in place of the classical uniformitarianism based only on processes familiar in human...

The Ocean of Truth: A Personal History of Global Tectonics Henry William Menard

Menard begins with the leading hypotheses (such as that the earth expands) and the supporting evidence for each. He traces the crucial work of the 1960s year by year as researchers debated hypotheses in correspondence and at frequent...

The Anatomy of Mountain Ranges Edited by Jean-Paul Schaer and John Rodgers

Focusing on mountain ranges that are relatively unfamiliar to most geologists, this work expands our view of tectonics beyond a standardized textbook approach and illustrates both the extraordinary variety of mountain ranges over the...