Evolution of the Atmosphere, Fire and the Anthropocene Climate Event Horizon
Preface
Acknowledgements
Prologue
Part A - Early Atmospheres
1. Early atmosphere-biosphere systems
2. Palaeozoic and Mesozoic atmospheres
3. Cenozoic atmospheres and early Hominins
Part B - Mass Extinction of Species
4. Mass Extinction of Species
4.1 Acraman impact and Acritarchs radiation
4.2 Late Ordovician mass extinction
4.3 Late and end-Devonian mass extinctions
4.4 Late Permian and Permian-Triassic mass extinctions
4.5 End-Triassic mass extinction
4.6 Jurassic-Cretaceous extinction
4.7 The K-T mass extinction
Part C - Homo's Fire Blueprint
5. A flammable biosphere
6. Homo Prometheus - a fire species
7. Climate and Holocene civilizations
Part D - The Anthropocene Event Horizon
8. Homo sapiens' war against nature
8.1 Neolithic burning and early global warming
8.2 The Great Carbon Oxidation Event
8.3 The Sixth mass extinction of species
9. An uncharted climate territory
10. Homo Prometheus
Epilogue - The life force
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