Geology Virtual WWW Library - Geology General Royal Tyrell Museum Famous Museum of paleontology Near Calgary, Canada Jurassic Reef Park - Introduction to ancient reefs http://www.geologynet.com/geologylinks.htm
Oxford University Press: Reef Evolution: Rachel Wood It is set out in three parts Introduction to reefs both ancient and modern isalmost entirely about ancient reefs. Environmental controls has chapters http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/EarthSciences/Paleontology/~~/c2Y9
Extractions: You are here: OUP USA Home U.S. General Catalog Earth Sciences Rachel Wood Add to Cart paper 432 pages Jul 1999, In Stock Shipping Details Using more than 250 illustrations and specially drawn ecological recontructions of reef communities, Rachel Wood provides a unique evolutionary approach to the understanding of ancient coral reef ecosystems. She documents the fundamental biological processes and innovations which have molded the evolution of reef ecosystems and given rise to the highly complex communities found today. The appearance of clonality, the acquisition of photosymbiosis, and the radiation of predator groups are all discussed in depth. "Provides a broader and more integrative level of biological insight into the development of both ancient and modern reefs than the paleo-environmental and evolutionary discussions usually encountered in treatments of fossil reefs and reef organisms....[Wood's] positions are taken with zest and imagination, and logically supported. I expect to enjoy the ensuing debates as much as I enjoyed the book....I have a short book-shelf of key reference works that I consider particularly clear, comprehensive, and accessibly organized, and which I use as my starting point for exploring unfamiliar topics and linkages....Wood's book...is going straight into the `short shelf.'"
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Paleontology And Geology Glossary: De Deinogalerix (meaning terrible hedgehog ) was an ancient hedgehog that livedduring the middle Coral reefs, brachiopods, and crinoids were abundant. http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/dinosaurs/glossary/indexde.shtml
Extractions: The Death Star Theory refers to the fact that mass extinctions are periodic, and may be caused by the Earth's passing through a cloud of comets (the Oort cloud ) every 26 million years. Some people have hypothesized that there is a yet-to-be-discovered dark star or perhaps a planet (called, appropriately enough, Nemesis) orbiting in the outer reaches of our solar system. This body disrupts the Oort cloud (once every 26 million years), sending comets into the inner parts of the solar system, some of which hit Earth and cause mass extinctions.
Geologysite.htm University of California at Berkeley, Museum of paleontology Trilobite Junction, Reef madness Offers an overview of modern and ancient reefs http://www.salemstate.edu/~lhanson/hotsites/sedimentary_paleo.htm
Extractions: University of California at Berkeley Museum of Paleontology Trilobite Junction A Guide to the (8) Orders of Trilobites, maintained by Sam Gon III Folk's The Petrology of Sedimentary Rocks : Published Online by The Walter Geology Library Duke University's extensive photo library ( Part 1 and Part 2 ) of sedimentary structures Quiz time! SEPM Society for Sedimentary Geology Special Publications Worth Publisher's Sedimentation and Sedimentary Rocks GERM Global Subducted Sediment: Geochemical database Web Resources for Sedimentary Geologists Lecture notes: Journal of Sedimentary Research Reef madness : Offers an overview of modern and ancient reefs
Professor Constance Soja Research paleontology sedimentology of Paleozoic reefs in Alaska, Debating whether dinosaurs should be cloned from ancient DNA to promote http://departments.colgate.edu/geology/faculty/soja.html
Extractions: Soja, C.M. Silurian of Alaska. Proceedings of the Murchison International Meeting on the Silurian System, University of Rochester:in press. Soja, C.M., Newton, A., * Antoshkina, A.I., and White, B. 2005. Silurian skeletal stromatolite reefs, southeastern Alaska (Alexander terrane) and Ural Mountains, Russia. Geodiversitas:in press. Soja, C.M. 2005. Silurian metazoan bioherms and biostromes, southeastern Alaska (Alexander terrane). Geodiversitas:in press.
Natural Selection: Subject Gateway To The Natural World A clear and simple introduction to the ancient reptiles, ichthyosaurs, coveringmorphology, distribution in time and Reef ecology; reefs; paleontology; http://nature.ac.uk/browse/560.176.html
Extractions: Top Stratigraphic palaeontology Mesozoic ... Prosaurodon As part of the Oceans of Kansas Web site, this page features the Saurocephalus Saurodon and Prosaurodon , sword-eels of the late Cretaceous period. The information has been provided by Mike Everhart and is complemented with photographs and illustrations of fossils. Paleontology/Cretaceous ; Extinct fishes; Fossils; Alpine Jurassic working group Compiled by Dr Michael Rasser, a palaeontologist at Geologische Bundesanstalt, Vienna, this site aims to present the work of geologists and paleontologists studying the Alpine Jurassic. The site includes a searchable literature database (currently containing 1134 records), descriptions of ongoing projects, a directory of people in the field and related links. Paleontology/Jurassic; Paleoecology; An Account of the Impression of the almost Entire Sceleton of a large Animal / William Stukely A digitised copy of 'An Account of the Impression of the almost Entire Sceleton of a large Animal in a very hard Stone, lately presented the Royal Society, from Nottinghamshire', written by the antiquarian Dr William Stukely [sic]. This was originally published in vol.30 of 'Philosphical Transactions', 1719. A pdf version can also be found on 'The Plesiosaur Site' (requires Adobe Acrobat) Plesiosauria; Fossils; Stukeley, William, 1687-1765;
Natural Selection: Subject Gateway To The Natural World Coral reefs publishes research material on on both modern and ancient reefs , paleontology/Silurian; Geology, Stratigraphic/Silurian; reefs; http://nature.ac.uk/browse/577.789.html
Extractions: Action atlas : coral reefs This site presents general information on the present state of coral reefs worldwide. It provides general profiles by country together with maps. It is published as a section in MoJo Wire, the electronic version of the American current affairs magazine, Mother Jones. There is useful information in the site but some elements, particularly introductory sections, reflect an editorial bias. Mirror sites are offered in English and Spanish. Coral reef conservation; Coral reefs and islands; Australian Institute of Marine Science : coral reefs and mangroves: modelling and management This site describes a current research project sponsored by the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS), IBM, KEPCO and UOG. This project aims to "to improve the management of coral reef and mangrove habitats through intensive research, international collaboration, and the use of powerful visualisation tools". In addition to descriptive information about the project and its results to date, the site includes a list of its publications. Some articles are offered in full text, while others are presented as abstracts. Details and contact addresses for staff, and recent news of the project complete the site. Coral reef conservation; Mangrove conservation;
PALEONTOLOGY ancient Invertebrates and Their Living Relatives. Prentice Hall. Low level. Lower Cretaceous coralalgal-rudist patch reefs in southeastern Arizona, p. http://www.geo.arizona.edu/geo3xx/geo308/
Extractions: 2005 PALEONTOLOGY: GEOS 308/EEB 308 Lecture: PAS 220 Labs: Gould-Simpson 203 Gould-Simpson Rm 319 kflessa@geo.arizona.edu Office hours: TuTh 1-2 or by appt Teaching assistants: Jen Roskowski GS 510; jarosk@geo.arizona.edu Stephanie McAfee GS301; smcafee@geo.arizona.edu Why learn about fossils? Some more-or-less practical reasons: (1) Fossils reveal when, and how fast, organisms appeared, evolved, and became extinct; (2) Fossils are reliable indicators of the age of sedimentary rocks; and (3) Fossils are excellent indicators of past life and environments. Non-practical reasons include the pleasure of discovery, reconstructing the life of the past, and being able to critique the entire Jurassic Park series. The lecture part of this course will cover the principles of paleontology, the evolution of life in the oceans and on land, the use of fossils in dating and in deciphering ancient environments, and the major features of evolution and extinction as seen in the fossil record. The laboratory part of the course will illustrate the concepts discussed in lecture, introduce you to important groups of fossils, provide field experience in collecting and analyzing fossils, and develop research, writing and presentation skills. There is a REQUIRED FIELD TRIP in this course.
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The Milwaukee Public Museum - Geology Section As a senior in paleontology at the University of California, Berkeley he was said Watkins, but in fact, the ancient reefs were much duller, based mostly http://www.mpm.edu/research/geology/aa_watkins_lore.html
Extractions: A 26-million-year history of Milwaukee lies in a dank room of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's Kenilworth Building-and Rodney Watkins wants to read it. B ut to do so he'll need a forklift and a high-powered flashlight. Why? This history is embedded in cores of Milwaukee's bedrock. Thousands of feet long, the cores are broken into segments and stored on pallets, some stacked as tall as six feet. T he cores were drilled years ago for use by engineers as the Metropolitan Milwaukee Sewerage District's (MMSD) deep tunnel system was getting under way. Ten years after the completion of the tunnels, MMSD gave the core to the Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey, which in turn stored the material at the Kenilworth Building. B edrock under Milwaukee means Silurian Period dolomite, a rock similar to limestone laid down by shallow, salty seas from 443 million to 417 million years ago give or take a million on either end as more is learned," Watkins said.
Palaeos Paleontology: Fossils One group held the modern view that fossils are the remains of ancient plants and Also, whereas certain environments eg reefs, ocean bottoms (reduced http://www.palaeos.com/Palaeo/fossils.htm
Extractions: Home Index Paleontology Fossils Trace Fossils Palynology Books Fossils are the remains of prehistoric animal and plant and micro-organisms, as well as traces, tracks, impressions, etc they may have left. Only a tiny proportion of all the organisms that ever lived became fossils, and even then mostly those with hard shells, bones etc that lived in conditions favourable for preservation. So our understanding of life in past ages is very uneven. The nature of what fossils are was naturally a mystery to a civilization such as the Judaeo-Christian West which considered the entire Earth and all Creation to be no more than 5 or 6 thousand years old. Since the 16th century or so, scholars had engaged in a bitter controversy over the origin of fossils. One group held the modern view that fossils are the remains of ancient plants and animals. The other considered that fossils were either freaks of nature or creations of the devil. During the 18th century, the theory became popular that all fossils were relics of the great flood recorded in the Bible (in the 1960s or so this idea was revived by Young Earth Creationists ). It was only around the beginning of the 19th century, when the basic principles of modern geology were established, that a better understand of fossils was possible. And it was not until
BASIN ANALYSIS paleontology e. Sedimentary Structures f. Paleocurrent Analysis g. Wire Line Logs ancient reefs. a. Coral b. Rudist c. Algal d. Reef Depomodel. http://cas.memphis.edu/geology/dlumsden/basin/baoutlineh.html
Ancient Life Text - NYS Museum American paleontology was born in the mid1800s in the New York State Museum . EarthÂ’s Oldest Coral reefs text panel for free-standing case in the http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/education/teacher/ancient_life_text.html
Extractions: Information Exhibits Programs Education ... New York State Museum ANCIENT LIFE OF NEW YORK A Billion Years of Earth History Gallery Text and Labels Please take a stroll through a billion years of New York’s “deep time." [Introductory panel outside of the gallery] Like deep space, deep time takes us back through dimensions of life that are beyond the scope of human experience. Deep time is reconstructed by scientific evidence. Paleontology is the study of life through deep time. paleontology pay -lee-un- tahl James Hall [label for portrait of James Hall] First director of New York State Museum and one of the most important paleontologists of the nineteenth century. Throughout this exhibition: Unfamiliar Words - Some scientific terminology may be unfamiliar to you, so certain words within each panel are bolded . You can find these words either written out phonetically, or defined, or both, at the bottom of the appropriate panel. Fossil Names - All living and fossil organisms are given a unique scientific name. This two-part, descriptive name consists of the genus (jee-nuss) and the species (spee-seez), usually Latin or Greek words. The genus is capitalized, but the species is not. Both names are always written in
UC Marine Council Directory Search By Category 2) History of scleractinian reefs, including paleontology,paleoclimate, and physical parameters of modern and ancient oceans; paleoclimatology. http://www.ucop.edu/research/ucmarine/results_all_category.php?Category=Paleocea
Biodiversity Over Time For example, some existing large rock formations are the remains of ancient reefs 2003) University of California Museum of paleontology Taxon Lift. http://cnx.rice.edu/content/m12148/latest/
Extractions: By: Robert Ahlfinger Note: This browser cannot correctly display MathML. To be able to view the math in this document, use the PDF version , or please consider using another browser, such as Mozilla or Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 or above MathPlayer required for IE). The history of life on Earth is described in various publications and web sites ( e.g. Speer, B.R. and A.G. Collins. 2000 Tudge, 2000 Lecointre and Guyader, 2001 Maddison, 2001 ... Eldredge, 2002 ); it is also discussed in the module on Macroevolution: essentials of systematics and taxonomy. For the current purpose of understanding what is biodiversity, it is only necessary to note that that the diversity of species, ecosystems and landscapes that surround us today are the product of perhaps 3.7 billion ( i.e. ) to 3.85 billion years of evolution of life on Earth ( Mojzsis et al. Fedo and Whitehouse, 2002 Thus, the evolutionary history of Earth has physically and biologically shaped our contemporary environment. As noted in the section on Biogeography , plate tectonics and the evolution of continents and ocean basins have been instrumental in directing the evolution and distribution of the Earth's biota. However, the physical environment has also been extensively modified by these biota. Many existing landscapes are based on the remains of earlier life forms. For example, some existing large rock formations are the remains of ancient reefs formed 360 to 440 million years ago by communities of algae and invertebrates (
Written Assignment ancient reefs a description of fossil reefs how they were similar and/or Journal of paleontology, 59551-560. Book, single author MAYR, E. 1963. http://www.geology.iupui.edu/Academics/CLASSES/G109/Joe_Paper.htm
Extractions: This is followed by one or more sections , dictated by the nature of the topic, that cover the major subject areas. For example, if your paper is on Silurian Reefs of Indiana , you might include the following sections: Introduction - what are living reefs like? Ancient Reefs Distribution - where do they occur in the state? Significance of Reefs - academic, economic, geologic, etc.
Facies Models The asymmetry of many ancient reefs and distribution of sediment facies suggeststhat University of Kansas paleontology Contribution, Article 65, 58 P. http://www.geology.iupui.edu/Academics/CLASSES/G130/reefs/fm.htm
Extractions: A reef, rising above the sea floor, is an entity of its own making - a sedimentary system within itself. The numerous, large calcium carbonate secreting organisms stand upon the remains of their ancestors and are surrounded and often buried by the skeletal remains of the many small organisms that once lived on, beneath, and between them. Because they are built by organisms, fossil reefs ( Fig. 1 ) are storehouses of paleontological information and modern reefs are natural laboratories for the study of benthic marine ecology. Also, fossil reefs buried in the subsurface contain a disproportionately large amount of our oil and gas reserves compared to other types of sedimentary deposits. For these reasons, reefs have been studied in detail by paleontologists and sedimentologists, perhaps more intensely than any other single sedimentary deposit, yet from two very different viewpoints. This paper is an integration of these two viewpoints. I shall concentrate less on the familiar trinity of back-reef, reef, and fore-reef, but more on the complex facies of the reef proper. Since the first edition of Facies Models, there has been much new information on both the sedimentology and paleontology of reefs. The model itself has been presented elsewhere (James, 1983) and amplified using numerous examples from the modern and fossil record. In this present version the model remains unchanged but many of the underlying concepts and implications that flow from it have been revised and/or enlarged.
Paleontology In California State Parks scene is paleontology, the study of the fossilized remains of ancient life . today by their extensive fossil oyster shell reefs and fossilized wood. http://www.parks.ca.gov/default.asp?page_id=23318
