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Book SynopsisThis 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 experience. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again
Table of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. v*Foreword, pg. xi*Introduction, pg. 1*Chapter 1. Toward the Vindication of Punctuational Change, pg. 9*Chapter 2. Perfection, Continuity, and Common Sense in Historical Geology, pg. 35*Chapter 3. Reflections on the "Rare Event" and Related Concepts in Geology, pg. 77*Chapter 4. The Stratigraphic Code and what it implies, pg. 91*Chapter 5. Statistical Sedimentation and Magnetic Polarity Stratigraphy, pg. 101*Chapter 6. Mass Extinction: Unique or Recurrent Causes?, pg. 115*Chapter 7. The Two Phanerozoic Supercycles, pg. 129*Chapter 8. The Fabric of Cretaceous Marine Extinctions, pg. 151*Chapter 10. Changes in The Angiosperm Flora Across the Cretaceoustertiary Boundary, pg. 279*Chapter 11. Palynological Evidence for Change in Continental Floras at the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary, pg. 315*Chapter 12. Mammal Evolution near the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary, pg. 339*Chapter 13. Terminal Cretaceous Extinctions Of Large Reptiles, pg. 373*Chapter 14. Low Sea Levels, Droughts, and Mammalian Extinctions, pg. 387*Chapter 15. Eustasy, Geoid Changes, and Multiple Geophysical Interaction, pg. 395*Chapter 16. On two Kinds of Rapid Faunal Turnover, pg. 417*Chapter 17. The Phanerozoic "Crisis" as Viewed from the Miocene, pg. 437*Chapter 18. Marine Mineral Resources and Uniformitarianism, pg. 449
