فهرست مطالب
Contents\nAcknowledgments\nIntroduction\n1. Catastrophism Versus Gradualism\n2. Lyell’s Laws\n3. The Alvarez Hypothesis\n4. Mass Extinctions\n5. Kill Curves and Strangelove Oceans\n6. Catastrophism and Natural Selection: Charles Darwin Versus Patrick Matthew\n7. Impacts and Extinctions: Do They Match Up?\n8. The Great Dying: The End-Permian Extinctions\n9. Catastrophic Volcanic Eruptions and Extinctions\n10. Ancient Glaciers or Impact-Related Deposits?\n11. The Shiva Hypothesis: Comet Showers and the Galactic Carousel\n12. Geological Upheavals and Dark Matter\nEpilogue\nSources and Further Reading\nIndex