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Cataclysm and Evolution
Author(s) -
Nininger H. H.
Publication year - 1942
Publication title -
contributions of the society for research on meteorites
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1945-5100
pISSN - 0096-2813
DOI - 10.1111/j.1945-5100.1942.tb00135.x
Subject(s) - earth (classical element) , astrobiology , history , geology , paleontology , earth science , biology , astronomy , physics
Encounters by the Earth with planetoids are here suggested as an explanation of the geological revolutions so often referred to but never explained in geological writings. Such collisions would have been responsible also for the cataclysmic destruction of species, to which Cuvier and his contemporaries gave such great thought.