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Title:

From the Guajira Desert to the Apennines, and from Mediterranean microplates to the Mexican killer asteroid : honoring the career of Walter Alvarez / edited by Christian Koeberl, Department of Lithospheric Research, University of Vienna, Philippe Claeys, Analytical-Environmental-Geo-Chemistry, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Alessandro Montanari, Osservatorio Geologico di Coldigioco.

Publisher:

The Geological Society of AmericaInc.,

Copyright Date:

2022

Description:

xiii, 600 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm.

Subject:

Alvarez, Walter,--1940-
Geologists--United States--Biography.
Catastrophes (Geology)
Extinction (Biology)
Earth (Planet)--History.

Other Authors:

Koeberl, Christian, 1959- editor.
Claeys, Philippe, 1961- editor.
Montanari, Alessandro, editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

Life with a field geologist : improbable adventures on five continents / Milly Alvarez -- The contribution of Walter Alvarez to the investigation of the Capitoline Hill in Rome / Albert J. Ammerman -- Dinosaurs could not help it, can we? Big history and planetary health / Olga García-Moreno and Maarten P. Oranje.

Summary:

"This volume pays tribute to the career and scientific accomplishments of Walter Alvarez with papers related to the many topics he has covered : tectonics of microplates, structural geology, paleomagnetics, Apennine sedimentary sequences, geoarchaeology and Roman volcanics, Big History, and the discovery of evidence for a large asteroidal impact event at the Cretaceous-Tertiary (now Cretaceous-Paleogene) boundary site in Gubbio, Italy"-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

Special paper ; 557

ISBN:

0813725577
9780813725574

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1315578134

LCCN:

2022009267

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)