Origins and extinctions : based on a Symposium on Life and the Universe, held at the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C., April 30, 1986

Origins and extinctions : based on a Symposium on Life and the Universe, held at the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C., April 30, 1986 / edited by Donald E. Osterbrock and Peter H. Raven ; contributors, Alan H. Guth [and others].

Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, ©1988.
Description	xii, 121 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subject(s)	Cosmology--Congresses. Earth (Planet)--Origin --Congresses.

Other author/creator	Osterbrock, Donald E.
Other author/creator	Raven, Peter H.
Other author/creator	Guth, Alan H.
Other author/creator	Symposium on Life and the Universe (1986 : National Academy of Sciences)
Contents	Foreword / Donald E. Osterbrock and Peter H. Raven -- The birth of the cosmos / Alan H. Guth -- The formation of the earth / George W. Wetherill - - The ancient microcosm of planet earth / Lynn Margulis --Extinction in the geologic past / David M. Raup.
Local note	Little-312401--305131014400M
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographies.
LCCN	88001396
ISBN	0300042604 (alk. paper)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	QB631 .S95 1988	✔ Available	Place Hold