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Extinctions Are In - Extinctions. Edited by Matthew H. Nitecki University of Chicago Press; Chicago. 1984. ix + 354 pp. - Catastrophes and Earth History: The New Uniformitarianism. Edited by W. A. Berggren and John A. Van Couvering Princeton University Press; Princeton. 1984. xii + 464 pp.

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Karl W. Flessa
Karl W. Flessa*
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Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721
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Paleobiology , Volume 12 , Issue 3 , Summer 1986 , pp. 329 - 334
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