One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2016 [Wignall] presents a sound examination of an 80-million-year span, which began nearly 260 million years ago, that is considered by scientists to have been the most extreme extinction event in Earth's history... [A] great example of scientific sleuthing.
Publishers Weekly [An] excellent introduction to the latest thinking about this key ... Read moreperiod in Earth's history... Wignall's book is enthralling.
Matthew Cobb, New Scientist In this scholarly but accessible analysis, geologist Wignall explores the perfect storm of cataclysms, plate tectonics and other forces that led to 'The Great Dying'
and the rebound of life in its aftermath.
Gemma Tarlach, Discover magazine Well written and persuasive.
Choice Over the 170-odd pages [Wignall] discusses in great yet concise detail the point and counterpoint of large igneous provinces, massiv accumulations of millions of cubic kilometers of igneous rock, and mass extinctions that occurred repetitively and in synchrony from the middle of the Permian to the middle of the Jurassic... A well-researched, thorough, and stimulating volume for anyone looking for a scientific account of this time period and the notable geological and biological events that took place over its course.
William Gearty, Quarterly Review of Biology Show Less