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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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- 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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