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Catastrophes and lesser calamities
The causes of mass extinctions
Tony Hallam is Emeritus Professor of Geology at the
University of Birmingham and the author of a huge
range of scientific books and papers including
Great Geological Controversies
(1992) and
Mass Extinctions and their Aftermath
(with Paul Wignall, 1997).
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Catastrophes and
lesser calamities
The causes of mass extinctions
Tony Hallam
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Catastrophes and lesser calamities
The causes of mass extinctions
Tony Hallam is Emeritus Professor of Geology at the
University of Birmingham and the author of a huge
range of scientific books and papers including
Great Geological Controversies
(1992) and
Mass Extinctions and their Aftermath
(with Paul Wignall, 1997).
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Catastrophes and
lesser calamities
The causes of mass extinctions
Tony Hallam
1
3
Great Clarendon Street, Oxford OX2 6DP
Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford.
It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship,
and education by publishing worldwide in
Oxford New York
Auckland Cape Town Dar es Salaam Hong Kong Karachi
Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi
New Delhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto
With offices in
Argentina Austria Brazil Chile Czech Republic France Greece
Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore
South Korea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam
Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press
in the UK and in certain other countries
© Oxford University Press 2004
The moral rights of the author have been asserted
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First published 2004
First published in paperback 2005
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced,
stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means,
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reprographics rights organization. Enquiries concerning reproduction
outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department,
Oxford University Press, at the address above
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and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer
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