Project in the history of the mass-extinction debates: oral history interviews, 1984-1994.

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Project in the history of the mass-extinction debates: oral history interviews, 1984-1994.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82944315

This collection of oral history interviews documents the often controversial debate over possible astronomical or geophysical causes for the mass extinction of the dinosaurs. The materials provide a detailed account of a scientific debate in progress. Astronomers, paleontologists, geologists, etc. were interviewed, many at intervals, throughout the controversy. The more than 120 Interviewees include: Thomas J. Ahrens, Luis Alvarez, Walter Alvarez, Edward Anders, Frank Asaro, Bruce Bohor, William Clemens, Vincent Courtillot, Charles Drake, Stephen Jay Gould, Joseph T. Gregory, Erle G. Kauffman, Richard A. Muller, Walter Munk, David Raup, John Sepkoski, Herbert Shaw, and many others.

246 audio cassettes.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8292253

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