T. Rex and the Crater of Doom
Princeton Science Library
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T. Rex and the Crater of Doom
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Narrateur(s):
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Joel Richards
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Auteur(s):
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Walter Alvarez
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Carl Zimmer - foreword
À propos de cet audio
Sixty-five million years ago, a comet or asteroid larger than Mount Everest slammed into the Earth, inducing an explosion equivalent to the detonation of 100,000,000 hydrogen bombs. Vaporized detritus blasted through the atmosphere upon impact, falling back to Earth around the globe. Disastrous environmental consequences ensued: a giant tsunami, continent-scale wildfires, darkness, and cold, followed by sweltering greenhouse heat. When conditions returned to normal, half the plant and animal genera on Earth had perished.
This horrific chain of events is now widely accepted as the solution to a great scientific mystery: What caused the extinction of the dinosaurs? Walter Alvarez, one of the Berkeley scientists who discovered evidence of the impact, tells the story behind the development of the initially controversial theory. It is a saga of high adventure in remote locations, of arduous data collection and intellectual struggle, of long periods of frustration ended by sudden breakthroughs, of friendships made and lost, and of the exhilaration of discovery that forever altered our understanding of Earth's geological history.
©1997 Princeton University Press (P)2020 TantorWalter Alvarez is one of the scientists responsible for the theory that an interstellar object crashed into the Yucatan Peninsula sixty-five million years ago, triggering a series of events that lead to the mass extinction of three quarters of the plant and animal life on the planet including all the non-avian dinosaurs.
This book is a layman's guide into the research he conducted with his father and other scientists over the course of his career.
A quick read, ideal for anyone interested in geology or the impact hypothesis.
Rocks, Not Dinosaurs
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Incredible food for thought.
Unfortunately, the narration from Joel Richards and production standards from Tantor Audio let the book down somewhat. Richards's diction, timbre, and cadence are fine - but his tone is much too uninterested and he reads glacially (setting playback speed at 1.20X is needed to render the recording tolerable). Additionally, Tantor Sound Engineers are unable to soften Richards's natural sibilance (avoid earbuds).
The evidence laid out in this book changed the attitudes of Geologists forever - essentially proving the concept of catastrophism belongs in the field. As such, it's an indispensable read for scientifically-minded readers who need to be reminded that what we think of as "truth" changes.. and serves as an example for how to construct and deliver a gamechanging Scientific argument outside of a Proceedings Congress somewhere.
The relatively weak delivery brings my rating down to 8 stars out of 10, but if you can get 'T. Rex and the Crater of Doom' on sale (as I did) it's well worth a download. If they ask for a Credit, give it some thought.. a text - paper or eBook - iteration may serve you better.
Fascinating. Pivotal. Cautionary.
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since President Kennedy's promise of going to the moon, NASA'S flights and, of course, Star Trek, I've always been waiting for the next adventure.
Now to see that something for space caused mass extinction and how the scientists were finally able to prove it explains so much to us.
For a Trekky like me this book was wonderful and a joy to listen to.
Thanks so much!!!!
so so interesting
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