Once, the ocean of Tethys stretched across the world. It vanished just before Man appeared on Earth. Dorrik Stow tells of the powerful forces that created and destroyed a great ocean, its marine life, its extinctions, its impact on climate, and the many clues by which scientists have put together its story, stretching back 250 million years.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Preface
- 1: Tethys the Sea Goddess
- 2: Pangea the Supercontinent and the Birth of Tethys
- 3: Extinction, Evolution, and the Great Cycles of Life
- 4: Tethyan Fecundity in the Jurassic Seas
- 5: Black Death to Black Gold
- 6: The Greatest Flood of All Time: Rise and Fall of the Seas
- 7: End of an Era: The Debate Continues
- 8: Portrait of the Tethys Seaway
- 9: Closing Ocean, Rising Mountain
- 10: Death Throes of an Ocean
- 11: Epilogue: Perspective on the Future
- Further Reading
- Glossary of terms
