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Carboniferous Giants and Mass Extinction - The Late Paleozoic Ice Age World (Hardcover)
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Carboniferous Giants and Mass Extinction - The Late Paleozoic Ice Age World (Hardcover)
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Picture a world of dog-sized scorpions and millipedes as long as a
car; tropical rainforests with trees towering over 150 feet into
the sky and a giant polar continent five times larger than
Antarctica. That world was not imaginary; it was the earth more
than 300 million years ago in the Carboniferous period of the
Paleozoic era. In Carboniferous Giants and Mass Extinction, George
R. McGhee Jr. explores that ancient world, explaining its origins;
its downfall in the end-Permian mass extinction, the greatest
biodiversity crisis to occur since the evolution of animal life on
Earth; and how its legacies still affect us today. McGhee
investigates the consequences of the Late Paleozoic ice age in this
comprehensive portrait of the effects of ancient climate change on
global ecology. Carboniferous Giants and Mass Extinction examines
the climatic conditions that allowed for the evolution of gigantic
animals and the formation of the largest tropical rainforests ever
to exist, which in time turned into the coal that made the
industrial revolution possible-and fuels the engine of contemporary
anthropogenic climate change. Exploring the strange and fascinating
flora and fauna of the Late Paleozoic ice age world, McGhee focuses
his analysis on the forces that brought this world to an abrupt and
violent end. Synthesizing decades of research and new discoveries,
this comprehensive book provides a wealth of insights into past and
present extinction events and climate change.
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