Plants and the K-T Boundary

In Plants and the K–T Boundary, two of the world’s leading experts in palynology and paleobotany provide a comprehensive account of the fate of land plants during the ‘great extinction’ about 65 million years ago. They describe how the time boundary between the Cretaceous and Paleogene Periods (the K–T boundary) is recognized in the geological record, and how fossil plants can be used to understand global events of that time. There are case studies from over 100 localities around the world, including North America, China, Russia and New Zealand. The book concludes with an evaluation of possible causes of the K–T boundary event and its effects on floras of the past and present. This book is written for researchers and students in paleontology, botany, geology and Earth history, and everyone who has been following the course of the extinction debate and the K–T boundary paradigm shift.

• The first book on the topic of the K-T boundary to focus exclusively on the plant fossil record • Written by two of the world’s leading experts in the fields of palynology and paleobotany • Appendix contains case studies of over 100 global fossil localities, giving a complete compilation of the available data