LOGY 130
Text: Levin, H.L. 1999, The Earth Through Time. Sixth Edition. Saunders
Additional instructional materials: History of Life on Earth Outlines (Ashworth); Web instructional page @ http://www.ndsu.edu/pubweb/~ashworth/g130/
Class time: 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m., Stevens Auditorium
Answers
to old tests in the Outlines
Seating
Plan For Stevens Auditorium
Links
GEOLOGICAL TIME
Stratigraphy and
Paleontology
Eighteenth
and Nineteenth Century scientists
Unconformities
The angular unconformity
at Slim Buttes, South Dakota.
Dipping Oligocene strata
overlain by horizontal Miocene strata.
Photo A.C. Ashworth
Facies,
Transgressions and Regressions
Paleontology
(An
excellent resource from the Museum of
Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley)
Radioactive Dating
B. B. Boltwood (First radioactive estimate of the Age of the Earth)
Isotopes and Radioactivity (USGS - Bruce Doe)
Willard Libby (Discoverer of radiocarbon dating)
Radiocarbon
Dating Web Info (Tom Higham, Radiocarbon
Laboratory, University of Waikato, New Zealand
Shroud of Turin (Historical
Information)
Shroud of Turin (Debate pro and con the radiocarbon age)
Meteors, meteorites and impacts (Bill Arnett,)
PLATE TECTONICS
PBS - Animations of a dynamic Earth
San
Andreas fault http://citt.marin.cc.ca.us/ring/rplates.html
Volcanoes
(red), earthquakes (yellow) and lithospheric plates (blue)
http://pao.gsfc.nasa.gov/GSFC/weekly/1997picks/Vol_eq_plates.gif
University of Nevada Reno - Causes of Earthquakes
NASAGPS
Determined Plate Movement
Plate
tectonics by Henry Ritson
ARCHEAN AND PROTEROZOIC
Ancient
rocks in the Beartooth Mountains, Montana
Deep
probe seismic investigations of western North America
NASA
microbial mats and stromatolites
Stromatolites - Hamelin Pool, West Australia
The oldest macrofossil - stromatolite
UC Berkeley on the Ediacara fossils
How old is multicellular life? When did multicellular life evolve? Billion year old worms?
Gaia Hypothesis and endosymbiosis
THE PALEOZOIC ERA
Latest on the Cambrian explosion
Cambrian Period:http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/cambrian/camb.html
Jere
Lipp's on the radiation of the first animals
Dr.
Macrae's Burgess Shale page
Burgess
Shale at the Smithsonian
Burgess
Shale animals from Japan
Ordovician Fossils from New York
Ordovician Fossils from Quebec
Cladoselache
and other Devonian sharks
Devonian Red Hill site, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvanian Mazon Creek fossils
Lepidodendron
and othe Carboniferous plants
THE MESOZOIC ERA
Cretaceous
Period
Jurassic
Period
Dinosaur
Heart
Dinosaur
Eggs
Dinosaurs
(BBC)
Dinosaur
activities at the National Geographic
Bambiraptor
T.
rex at the Field Museum of Natural History
Hell
Creek Formation
Torosaurus
Solnhofen
Limestone
All
about Archaeopteryx
Blast
From The Past (Smithsonian Natural History)
Allan
Ashworth
Department
of Geosciences
North
Dakota State University
Fargo,
ND 58105-5517
Ph.
(701) 231-7919
Fax
(701) 231-7149
WWW
http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/geosci/
For further information email: ashworth@plains.nodak.edu
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