To see accurate pricing, please choose your delivery country.
 
 
United States
£ GBP
All Shops

British Wildlife

8 issues per year 84 pages per issue Subscription only

British Wildlife is the leading natural history magazine in the UK, providing essential reading for both enthusiast and professional naturalists and wildlife conservationists. Published eight times a year, British Wildlife bridges the gap between popular writing and scientific literature through a combination of long-form articles, regular columns and reports, book reviews and letters.

Subscriptions from £33 per year

Conservation Land Management

4 issues per year 44 pages per issue Subscription only

Conservation Land Management (CLM) is a quarterly magazine that is widely regarded as essential reading for all who are involved in land management for nature conservation, across the British Isles. CLM includes long-form articles, events listings, publication reviews, new product information and updates, reports of conferences and letters.

Subscriptions from £26 per year
Academic & Professional Books  Earth System Sciences  Geosphere  Geophysics & Geochemistry

The New Catastrophism The Importance of the Rare Event in Geological History

By: D Ager
256 pages, 80 b/w photos, 11 line illus
The New Catastrophism
Click to have a closer look
Select version
  • The New Catastrophism ISBN: 9780521483582 Paperback Jan 1995 Not in stock: Usually dispatched within 1-2 weeks
    £47.99
    #40140
  • The New Catastrophism ISBN: 9780521420198 Hardback May 1993 Out of Print #23588
Selected version: £47.99
About this book Contents Customer reviews Related titles

About this book

Rare and violent events through geological time are the theme of this thought-provoking view of the Earth's history. From hurricanes to episodic evolution, from colliding continents to asteroid impacts - the importance of these events is presented with many illustrations, both pictorial and anecdotal.
`The author has a great gift for popularising his subject. There must be few books that are hard to put down, but this is one' - Times Higher Education Supplement.

Contents

Introduction; 1. A much misunderstood man; 2. Magnolias and marigolds: hippos and hiatuses; 3. Modern terrestrial deposits; 4. Ancient terrestrial deposits; 5. Modern shorelines; 6. Ancient shorelines; 7. Ancient platform deposits; 8. Off-shore deposits, ancient and modern; 9. Sudden storms are short; 10. Evolution by accident; 11. Periodic plutonism; 12. It's the only present we've got!; 13. Jupiter or Pluto?

Customer Reviews

By: D Ager
256 pages, 80 b/w photos, 11 line illus
Media reviews
'The writing is jargon-free, which makes the book accessible to a wider public than just students and professionals.' New Scientist 'His new work shares with its predecessor the qualities of originality, readability and seminality. I thoroughly recommend it.' Nature 'The text is simply written ... and contains many anecdotes which are relevant to the argument.' Asilib Book Guide
Current promotions
New and Forthcoming BooksNHBS Moth TrapBritish Wildlife MagazineBuyers Guides