A graph, devised by D. M. Raup, on which the number of taxa becoming extinct is plotted against the time intervals between extinction events. It shows, for example, that an extinction of 30% of species occurs, on average, about every 10 Ma.
Kill curve
- shallowing-upward carbonate cycle
- shamal
- shame
- Shamil (1798–1871)
- Shamir, Yitzhak (1915–2012)
- shamrock
- Shang
- Shanghai Stock Exchange
- Shankara (c.788–820)
- Shankaracharya
- Shannon, Claude (1916–2001)
- Shannon, Claude Elwood
- Shannon diagram
- Shannon index
- Shannon–Fano coding
- Shannon–Hartley law
- Shannon–Hartley theorem
- Shannon’s model
- Shannon’s Theorem
- Shannon’s theorems
- Shans
- shanty town
- Shao Yong (1011)
- shape blending
- shape coexistence nuclei