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Night Comes to the Cretaceous: Comets, Craters, Controversy, and the Last Days
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Night Comes to the Cretaceous: Comets, Craters, Controversy, and the Last Days of the Dinosaurs Paperback - 1999

by James Lawrence Powell

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What killed the dinosaurs? For more than a century, this question has been one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in science. But, in 1980, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Luis Alvarez and his son, Walter, proposed a radical answer: 65 million years ago an asteroid or comet as big as Mt. Everest slammed into the earth, raising a dust cloud vast enough to cause mass extinction. A revolutionary idea that challenged the ice-age extinction theory, the asteroid-impact theory was scorned and derided by the science community. But after years of bitter debate and intense research, an astonishing discovery was made-an immense impact crater in the Yucatán Peninsula that was identified as Ground Zero. The Alvarezes had their proof. A dramatic scientific detective story, Night Comes to the Cretaceous is a brilliant example of science at work-in the trenches, complete with passionate struggles and occasional victories.

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What killed the dinosaurs? For more than a century, this question has been one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in science. But, in 1980, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Luis Alvarez and his son, Walter, proposed a radical answer: 65 million years ago an asteroid or comet as big as Mt. Everest slammed into the earth, raising a dust cloud vast enough to cause mass extinction. A revolutionary idea that challenged the ice-age extinction theory, the asteroid-impact theory was scorned and derided by the science community. But after years of bitter debate and intense research, an astonishing discovery was made-an immense impact crater in the Yucatan Peninsula that was identified as Ground Zero. The Alvarezes had their proof. A dramatic scientific detective story, Night Comes to the Cretaceous is a brilliant example of science at work-in the trenches, complete with passionate struggles and occasional victories.
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  • Title Night Comes to the Cretaceous: Comets, Craters, Controversy, and the Last Days of the Dinosaurs
  • Author James Lawrence Powell
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Pages 272
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Mariner Books, New York
  • Publication date 1999-09-23
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780156007030 / 0156007037
  • Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.98 x 6.06 x 0.83 in (22.81 x 15.39 x 2.11 cm)
  • Reading level 1390
  • Category Science
  • Library of Congress subjects Dinosaurs, Extinction (Biology)
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 99026503
  • Dewey Decimal Code 576.84

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"[Powell] writes about science with elegance, and the result is a beguiling book."-the Washington Post Book World
"The changing conception of dinosaur extinction frames Powell's lucid and compelling account of the trench work of modern scientists that stands in sharp contrast to their mythical ivory tower image."-Science News

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