The Great Paleozoic Crisis : Life and Death in the Permian (The Critical Moments and Perspectives in Earth History and Paleobiology)

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