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SummerB 2006 Historical Geology GES 102 Class

A useful glossary is located online at PBS Evolution: Glossary (This is also a neat website to explore)

You should also refer to the links listed below under the heading Evolution, Paleontology & Systematics

For your Invertebrate Palentology Homework you will want to use these sites:

Invertebrate Paleontology Tutorial Web Site CUNY Cortland
Virtual Fossil Museum
Invertebrate Paleontology Laboratory at Georgia Perimeter College

I recommend that you look at the fossils in the cases first and try to make a general guess as to a modern analogue (similar animal) - then look through the pictures on the websites. Also look at the Taxonomy section in your course packet starting on page 11. (or you can download another copy)

For additional help the following websites are recommended:

• The -N-i-n-e- Ten Planets There is a great deal of nice information here and tons of useful links

Plate Tectonics and Stratigraphy

• This Dynamic Earth This is an on-line book about Plate Tectonics
  
• The Paleomap Project Has maps showing possible reconstructions of the distribution of the landmasses on Earth through geologic time plus a couple of projections of the future. *** You will want to use this website for Homework #2

New York State Geology

• Overview of New York State Geology This one is a large single page with lots of graphics, it can take a while to load
  
• New York State Geology Forum The major point of interest here is the list of links. There are all virtual field trips and all sorts of other information, though some of it has gotten a little out of date. Look for the icon that says "Mustaf's Mega GeoLinks"

Geologic Time

• The Web Geology Time Machine at UCMP This is a *great* website that has lots of information - you are going to want to refer to this one often.
  
• Geologic Time On on-line USGS book
  
• Fossils, Rocks, and Time Another on-line USGS book

  The Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History Department of Paleobiology homepage This is a new site called "Geologic Time: The Story of a Changing Earth." I haven't had a chance to look at it much but it looks pretty cool so far.

Evolution, Paleontology & Systematics

• Getting into the Fossil Record Uses Java
  
• Evolution 101 Uses Java
  
• What did T. rex taste like ? An introduction to Cladistics (a method of describing how organisms are related)
  
• UCMP Phylogeny Wing: The Phylogeny of Life
  
• PBS Companion website to the show Evolution

Fossils

• Palaeos: The trace of life on Earth This is a great site that discusses the history of the Earth through Trace Fossils - actually it has expanded a great deal and now has tons of useful information - check it out !
  
• The Oldest Complex Animal Fossils Discusses Ediacaran fossils and link to Snowball Earth discussion.
  
• Millar Museum Online part of the previously listed site - more information on Ediacaran fauna
  
• Fossil Gallery at the Paleontological Museum of Oslo, Norway

And if you want to go right to the source:

• Charles Darwin's Origin of the Species
  
• Darwin and Wallace's 1858 Paper
  
• Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology

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