Doomsday: The Science of Catastrophic Events

by Antony Milne

Book Overview

Catastrophes are part of Earth's real history. Its grim disasters, acting as a backdrop against which human dramas have been played out, have been recorded in many ancient writings. As Milne shows, doomsday catastrophism, once the prerogative of 18th-century geologists steeped in the Biblical memory of the Great Flood, has now regained respectability. Catastrophism applies to many disciplines such as planetary science, biology, climatology, and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275967476
• ISBN13: 9780275967475
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.6"