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Relative dating Assignment

Unravelling geologic time - Columbia U.

Relative dating exercise

Who's on First - A relative dating activity

Earth's Cycles - Columbia U.

1. Age of the Earth
   Age of the Earth - Small font version
   
2. Radiometric Dating
   Radiometric Dating - Small font version

Geologic Time Chart to know

NEW!! Time Chart Test with automatic checking feature, courtesy of Jon Challen

Time Chart with correct answers

Blank Geologic Time Chart for in-class test

Radiometric dating exercise, Miami University

Geologic Time, Colorado

Time - Florida State U.

Indicators of an Old Earth - Ontario Centre for Religious Tolerance

Geologic Time exhibit - U. California, Berkeley

Radiometric dating- a Christian perspective

Radiocarbon Dating WEB-info from New Zealand

Radiocarbon Web Server, Arizona

1. Sandstone Interpretation
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2. Carbonate Rock Interpretation -
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3. Facies, Transgressions, Regressions, and Walther's Law -
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   Sedimentary Structures and Stratigraphic Features

• Web Resources for Sedimentary Geologists
• Geology 101 Sedimentary Rocks
• Bedforms and cross-bedding
  from the U.S. Geological Survey, another page
  
• Ichnology (trace fossils)
  
• Clastic depositional environments
  
• Growth of the North American Continent
  

• Introduction to fossils in Kansas
• A key ot the common genera of Neogene sharks teeth
• Introduction to Ichnology

• The World Wide Web Virtual Library - Evolution
• Evolution Homepage, University of Toronto
• Evolution lecture notes - Columbia U.
• National Association of Biology Teachers Position Statement on Teaching Evolution
• Evolution - Theory and History - U. California Berkeley
• Evolution - Talk-Origins Archive
• Frequently asked questions on evolution from Talk-Origins Archive
• Antibiotic Resistance, American Scientist, July/August, 1995
• The Paluxy River track controversy - human tracks in the geologic record?

• World Seafloor Map - NOAA, Marine Geology and Geophysics Division
  
• Click here to see complete map
• Illustrated notes on plate tectonics from Volcano World
• Introduction to Plate Tectonics from the U. S. Geological Survey
• Maps of Ancient Earth

Cambrian
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Fossils of the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale

Ordovician
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Silurian
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Devonian
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Carboniferous (Mississippian and Pennsylvanian)
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Permian
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The Origin and Evolution of Life - NASA's Planetary Biology Program

The Beginnings of Life on Earth, American Scientist, September/October 1995

Tectonic and paleogeographic maps (and Grand Canyon)

The Origin of Animal Body Plans - American Scientist, April/May 1997

Burgess Shale Fossils

The Ordovician Radiation American Scientist, March/April 1996

Origin of Tetrapods - Columbia U.

The Permian Reef Complex (Delaware Basin) of West Texas

Lithologic, paleogeographic and paleocurrent maps of the World

Plant fossils

A history of Paleozoic forests

Plant fossils of West Virginia

Early Mesozoic (Triassic-Jurassic)
Early Mesozoic (Triassic-Jurassic) - small font version

Dinosaurs
Dinosaurs - small font version


Cretaceous
Cretaceous - small font version

• Jurassic Reef Park
• Fossils from the Western Interior Sea (Mosasaurs and other Cretaceous fossils)
• The Real Jurassic Park - Morrison Fm etc. - Columbia U.
• Solnhofen Ls and Birds - Columbia U.

Dinosaur references

• Syllabus from Dinosaurs and the History of Life - Columbia U.
• The Triassic World and the Origin of Dinosaurs - Columbia U.
• Triassic dinosaur assemblages - part 1, part 2
• Alabama Dinosaurs
• The Dinosaur Pages - Good phylogeny chart
• Dinosauria Online
• Dinosaur Dictionary
• University of California, Berkeley Dinosaurs in Cyberspace page - lots of links to dinosaur sites
  
• Steven Schimmrich's Dinosaurs and Vertebrate Paleontology
  
• Dinosaurs - Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology
  
• University of California, Berkeley through UNC Sunsite
  
• Dinosaurs - Hot-blooded or Cold-blooded?
  
• Dinosaur Trace Fossils
  
• Museum of the Rockies (lots of dinosaurs)
• Inside a Dinosaur Bone, American Scientist, March/April 1995
  
• Yucatan Peninsula impact crater which has been linked to the extinction of the dinosaurs more than 65 million years ago.
  

• Ice Ages - Illinois State Museum
  
• The Midwest 16,000 years ago - Illinois State Museum
  
• Human Origins
  
• The African Emergence and Early Asian Dispersals of the Genus Homo - American Scientist - November-December 1996
  
• Maricopa College course on Human Origins
  
• Aquatic Ape Theory
  
• More Aquatic Ape Theory