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T. Rex and the Crater of Doom Paperback - 1998

by Walter Alvarez

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Sixty-five million years ago a gigantic comet or asteroid as big as Mount Everest slammed into the Yucatan Peninsula, creating an explosion on impact equivalent to the detonation of a hundred million hydrogen bombs. It produced a cloud of roiling debris that blackened the sky for months as well as other geologic disasters--and triggered the demise of Tyrannosaurus rex.
We know what happened largely because Walter Alvarez--synthesizing the findings of experts from a variety of scientific fields--has written a gripping story of the decades-long search for the cause of the dinosaurs' extinction. Painstakingly assembling clues from the Italian Apennines and the depths of the Pacific and presenting them with the excitement of a great novel, T. rex and the Crater of Doom is a book of undeniable importance and irresistible appeal by a major figure in contemporary science.
" Engaging and witty. Read Alvarez for and excellent account of how scientists pose questions and seek to solve them." --Scientific American
" First-rate...Alvarez provides the up-close tale of the comet or asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs." --San Francisco Chronicle

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  • Title T. Rex and the Crater of Doom
  • Author Walter Alvarez
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Vintage Book
  • Pages 185
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Vintage Books USA, New York
  • Publication date 1998-07-28
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780375702105 / 0375702105
  • Weight 0.53 lbs (0.24 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.06 x 5.21 x 0.63 in (20.47 x 13.23 x 1.60 cm)
  • Reading level 1380
  • Category Science
  • Library of Congress subjects Extinction (Biology), Catastrophes (Geology)
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 98009369
  • Dewey Decimal Code 576.84
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