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T. Rex and the Crater of Doom

By: Walter Alvarez, Carl Zimmer - foreword
Narrated by: Joel Richards
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Summary

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 Tantor

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Old book but detailed enough to remain fresh

This seems to have originally been published 25 years ago so no new information but I had not read anything with as much detail about the work that led to the discovery of the chicxulub crater and the author tells the story in an engaging and balanced way. Liked the narration

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Polite Discovery

Well written account of what was a controversial theory and is now the mainstream . However little of the scientific infighting and backfiring which is occasioned when accepted ideas and therefore reputations are challenged finds its way to this story. Meanwhile in other books fur feathers and hot and cold blood erupt like a T rex luncheon.

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Very hard science made easy

Told you the ups and down of science and nobody takes your word you have to prove it

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Good length

Obviously interresting. A b c d e f g h i j k l m

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excellent book very well read

Very engaging story written in a compelling and interesting style. narration is very clear and relaxing.

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K/T Boundary

This a charming personal account of the scientific search to find & understand the cause of the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. Note that its not about the dinosaurs themselves who were not at fault for suffering a sudden demise. The author was a major participant in this geological mystery so is writing from first hand experience. He does his best to simply explain basic geological terms & thinking for but inevitably a basic understanding of chemistry & physics will help the layman reader to follow the plot. Its a fascinating story & very well told.

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Great book but why whisper

The reader is so quiet! He’s all up close and whispering into the mic. Quite hard to listen to, which is a shame as the content is great!

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