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Tracking the Course of Evolution: Extinction
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/education/events/cowen1a.html
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This essay on mass extinction events (Ordovician, Devonian, Permian, Triassic, Cretaceous) in the geologic record is a chapter from History of Life, a book written by Richard Cowen, in which he discusses the general geologic body of knowledge surrounding each mass extinction event. Additionally, the author provides thirty-two (32) bibliographic references (primarily peer-reviewed science journals) on these mass extinction events.
Intended for grade levels:
  • College (13-14)
Type of resource:
  • Text:
    • Ref. material
Subject:
  • Geological Sciences:
    • Paleontology
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This essay, written in 1999, is a chapter from the book History of Life, published by Blackwell Science, Boston, Massachusetts, 2000. Copyright Richard Cowen. You may print out a copy for personal or educational use, and you may link to this site.
DLESE Catalog ID: DLESE-000-000-004-773
Resource contact / Creator / Publisher:
Author: Dr Richard Cowen
University of California Museum of Paleontology

Publisher: University of California Museum of Paleontology