Bibliograph

The last days of the dinosaurs, an asteroid, extinction, and the beginning of our world, Riley Black

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Label

The last days of the dinosaurs, an asteroid, extinction, and the beginning of our world, Riley Black

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-287)

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The last days of the dinosaurs

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1246141194

Responsibility statement

Riley Black

Sub title

an asteroid, extinction, and the beginning of our world

Summary

"In The Last Days of the Dinosaurs, Riley Black walks readers through what happened in the days, the years, the centuries, and the million years after the impact, tracking the sweeping disruptions that overtook this one spot, and imagining what might have been happening elsewhere on the globe. Life's losses were sharp and deeply-felt, but the hope carried by the beings that survived sets the stage for the world as we know it now. Picture yourself in the Cretaceous period. It's a sunny afternoon in the Hell Creek of ancient Montana 66 million years ago. A Triceratops horridus ambles along the edge of the forest. In a matter of hours, everything here will be wiped away. Lush verdure will be replaced with fire. Tyrannosaurus rex will be toppled from their throne, along with every other species of non-avian dinosaur no matter their size, diet, or disposition. They just don't know it yet. The cause of this disaster was identified decades ago. An asteroid some seven miles across slammed into the Earth, leaving a geologic wound over 50 miles in diameter. In the terrible mass extinction that followed, more than half of known species vanished seemingly overnight. But this worst single day in the history of life on Earth was as critical for us as it was for the dinosaurs, as it allowed for evolutionary opportunities that were closed for the previous 100 million years." --, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Preface -- Geologic timeline -- Introduction -- Before impact -- Impact -- The first hour -- The first day -- The first month -- One year after impact -- One hundred years after impact -- One thousand years after impact -- One hundred thousand years after impact -- One million years after impact -- Conclusion -- Appendix

Target audience

adult

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