TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTORY SECTION
A. Title Page
Solving the Major Extinctions
B. Table of
Contents
C. Introduction
D. Overview
A Brief Summary of the Book
CHAPTERS
1. Chapter 1
Looking at the Major Extinction Events
2. Chapter 2
The Standard Theory
3. Chapter 3
Ben's Antipodal Theory A Theory of Antipodal
Impact Effects
4. Chapter 4
Defining Cosmic Impacts
5. Chapter 5
Antipodal Impact Effects
6. Chapter 6 Further Theoretical Explanation
7. Chapter 7
Comparing the Theories
8. Chapter 8
The Rise of India Causes the Last Major Extinction
9. Chapter 9
Piecing Together the "Smoking Gun"
10. Chapter10
Blobs With Tails
11. Chapter11
Other Continental Questions
12. Chapter12
A "Cepheid Variable" approach to PaleoGeological
Modeling
13. Chapter13
The Next Impact A New World View
14. Chapter14
Conclusion
15. Chapter15
Footnotes and Bibliography
16. Appendix I --
The Permian Extinction 250 MYA
17. Appendix II --
The Creation of Western Antarctica 214
MYA
18. Appendix III --
The South American Surprise 132 MYA
19. Appendix IV --
The North American Surprise 202 MYA
20. Appendix V --
Impacts and Extinctions -- A Summary
21. Appendix VI --
Flood Basalt Eruptions and Mass Extinctions
22. Appendix VII --
Other Thoughts and Revisions
23. Appendix VIII --
Removing the Need for Geological Epicycles |