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  The Worst of Times
How Life on Earth Survived Eighty Million Years of Extinctions
Unraveling the mystery of the catastrophic age of extinctions Two hundred sixty million years ago, life on Earth suffered wave after wave of cataclysmic extinctions, with the worst wiping out nearly every species on the planet. The Worst of Times delves into the mystery behind these extinctions and sheds light on the fateful role the primeval supercontinent, known as Pangea, might have played in causing these global catastrophes. Drawing on the latest discoveries as well as his own firsthand experiences conducting field expeditions to remote corners of the world, Paul Wignall reveals what scientists are only now beginning to understand about the most prolonged and calamitous period of environmental crisis in Earth’s history. Wignall shows how these series of unprecedented extinction events swept across the planet, killing life on a scale more devastating than the dinosaur extinctions that would follow. The Worst of Times unravels one of the great enigmas of ancient Earth and shows how this ushered in a new age of vibrant and more resilient life on our planet.                                                                                                                                               

The Worst of Times How Life on Earth Survived Eighty Million Years of Extinctions 1st Table of contents:

Acknowledgments
Prologue
Chapter 1: A Time of Dying
Chapter 2: Extinction in the Shadows
Chapter 3: The Killing Seas
Chapter 4: Troubled Times in the Triassic
Plates
1. Bedding plane covered in Permian brachiopods, Spitsbergen, Norway.
2. David Bond pointing his rifle at the point where Capitanian brachiopods go extinct in Spitsbergen, Norway.
3. Simon Bottrell admiring some pillow basalt lavas of the Emeishan large igneous province, Yunnan, China.
4. The A team enjoying fieldwork in western Yunnan, China.
5. The Permian-Triassic boundary seen in Anatolia, Turkey.
6. Sausserberget mountain top in central Spitsbergen, Norway.
7. Early Triassic bivalves.
8. The Early Triassic world.
9. A conodont microfossil from the Triassic, China.
10. Quarry face in a Late Triassic reef, Bavaria.
11. A mountain of Triassic rock seen in the Dolomites of Northern Italy.
12. Rob Newton examining beautifully laminated shales of the Early Jurassic Period, Somerset coast, England.
13. Block of sandstone from the Late Triassic Period, Somerset coast, England.
14. Kettleness cliff, Yorkshire coast, England.
15. Bullet-shaped belemnites and an ammonite seen in Toarcian shales, Yorkshire, England.
16. Flood basalt landscape seen at Gásadalur in the Faroe Islands.
Chapter 5: Triassic Downfall
Chapter 6: Pangea’s Final Blow
Chapter 7: Pangea’s Death and the Rise of Resilience
Notes
References
Index
 

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