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T. Rex and the crater of doom

Sixty-five million years ago, a comet or asteroid larger than Mt. Everest slammed into the Earth, causing an explosion equivalent to the detonation of a hundred million hydrogen bombs. Vaporized impactor and debris from the impact site were blasted out through the atmosphere, falling back to Earth all around the globe. Terrible environmental disasters ensued, including a giant tsunami, continent-scale wildfires, darkness, and cold, followed by sweltering greenhouse heat. When conditions returned to normal, half the genera of plants and animals on Earth had perished. This horrific stor.

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  • "T. rex and the crater of doom"
  • "T.rex and the crater of doom"@it
  • "Tyrannosaurus rex"
  • "T. Rex and the crater of doom"@pl
  • "Tyrannosaurus rex and the crater of doom"
  • "Tyrannosaurus rex and the crater of doom"@en

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  • "One of the scientists who discovered the first evidence of a giant impact relates the story of the scientific investigation that revealed the cause of the great extinction sixty-five million years ago."
  • "Sixty-five million years ago, a comet or asteroid larger than Mt. Everest slammed into the Earth, causing an explosion equivalent to the detonation of a hundred million hydrogen bombs. Vaporized impactor and debris from the impact site were blasted out through the atmosphere, falling back to Earth all around the globe. Terrible environmental disasters ensued, including a giant tsunami, continent-scale wildfires, darkness, and cold, followed by sweltering greenhouse heat. When conditions returned to normal, half the genera of plants and animals on Earth had perished. This horrific stor."@en
  • "Sixty-five million years ago, a comet or asteroid larger than Mt. Everest slammed into the Earth, causing an explosion equivalent to the detonation of a hundred million hydrogen bombs. Vaporized impactor and debris from the impact site were blasted out through the atmosphere, falling back to Earth all around the globe. Terrible environmental disasters ensued, including a giant tsunami, continent-scale wildfires, darkness, and cold, followed by sweltering greenhouse heat. When conditions returned to normal, half the genera of plants and animals on Earth had perished. This horrific story is now widely accepted as the solution to a great scientific murder mystery - what caused the extinction of the dinosaurs? In T. rex and the Crater of Doom, the story of the scientific detective work that went into solving the mystery is told by geologist Walter Alvarez, one of the four Berkeley scientists who discovered the first evidence for the giant impact. It is a saga of high adventure in remote parts of the world, of patient data collection, of lonely intellectual struggle, of long periods of frustration ended by sudden breakthroughs, of intense public debate, of friendships made or lost, of the exhilaration of discovery, and of delight as a fascinating story unfolded."

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  • "Livres électroniques"
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  • "La fin tragique des dinosaures"
  • "T. Rex e il cratere dell'apocalisse : la più recente e straordinaria ipotesi sulla scomparsa dei dinosauri nel racconto di un grande scienziato"
  • "T.rex e il cratere dell'apocalisse : la più recente e straordinaria ipotesi sulla scomparsa dei dinosauri nel racconto di un grande scienziato"@it
  • "T.rex e il cratere dell'apocalisse : la più recente e straordinaria ipotesi sulla scomparsa dei dinosauri nel racconto di un grande scienziato"
  • "La Fin tragique des dinosaures"
  • "T. Rex and the crater of doom"
  • "T. Rex and the crater of doom"@en
  • "T. rex and the crater doom"
  • "T. rex and the Crater of Doom"
  • "Dinozaury i krater śmierci"
  • "Dinozaury i krater śmierci"@pl
  • "T. rex and the crater of doom"@en
  • "T. rex and the crater of doom"
  • "T. rex and the crater of doo"
  • "T.rex and the crater of doom"
  • "T.rex e il cratere dell'apocalisse : la più recente e straordinaria ipotesi sulla scomparsa dei dinosauri"@it
  • "T.rex e il cratere dell'apocalisse : la più recente e straordinaria ipotesi sulla scomparsa dei dinosauri"
  • "Tyrannosaurus rex y el cráter de la muerte"
  • "Tyrannosaurus rex y el cráter de la muerte"@es

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