The Great Paleozoic Crisis : Life and Death in the Permian

Douglas Erwin
Columbia University Press
 9780231074674
0-231-07467-0

Carefully examines the events recorded at the major Permo-Triassic boundary sections and documents the patterns of extinction and survival among the major groups of marine and terrestrial plants and animals..

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Erwin also provides a detailed summary of the climatic, geologic, geophysical and geochemical events of the Late Permian and Early Triassic.