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Other Uses for Fossils

Plate Tectonics

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Glossopteris (a seed fern or “tongue fern”) Lystrosaurus (a terrestrial reptile)

Mesosaurus (a freshwater lizard-like reptile) Cynognathus (a terrestrial reptile)

S. America

Africa

Antarctica

Australia

India

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Lots of Coral Species

Still a Lot of Them

Not So Many

Quite a Few

Hardly Any at All

Zip

30°N

Equator

30°S

Modified from an image at http://www.coralsoftheworld.org

Decreasing

Diversity

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DecreasingDiversity

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Decreasing

Diversity

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Dating Rocks/Evolution

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Paleoecology

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EOCENE AND OLIGOCENE (EARLY CENOZOIC) FOSSILS FROM NEAR AMERICUS

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PENNSYLVANIAN (LATE PALEOZOIC) FOSSILS FROM THE APPALACHIANS

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Extinctions

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Fossils - southwoodmiddleschool.orgsouthwoodmiddleschool.org/ourpages/auto/2014/8/28/43646672/Fossils.pdf · reduced to a film of carbon . More on trace fossils •Mold – reproduction

Continental Drift Hypothesis - Georgia Southwestern State ...itc.gsw.edu/faculty/bcarter/histgeol/Plates13/Observe6.pdf · and Douglas might be extinct, buried volcanoes like Mts

Inferring Depositional Environmentsitc.gsw.edu/faculty/bcarter/physgeol/sedrx/SedEnv.pdfInferring Depositional Environments ... quartz sandstone has only quartz grains, 2) An arkose

Earth’s Surface Processesitc.gsw.edu/faculty/bcarter/ISCI/Surface.pdf · 2015-09-24 · Earth’s Surface Processes ... But there are other landscape features that are simply interesting

An experiment to test the hypothesis that the Earth is flat.itc.gsw.edu/faculty/bcarter/ISCI/FlatEarth.pdf · hypothetico-deductive. process works. Proof that Earth is not flat is

SEA ANNELID FOSSILS - Dotsterrcfilms.dotster.com/ABALO-SEA-ANNELID-FOSSILS.pdf · SEA ANNELID FOSSILS ... verme (ver Nota 3). 5 ... Due to the same effect, excrements would be expelled

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Continental Drift Hypothesisitc.gsw.edu/faculty/bcarter/ocean/tectonics/Observe2.pdfSo Hess’s hypothesis didn’t, initially, change any minds about continental drift. The three

MISSOURI FOSSILS - Stuck on Sciencestuckonscienceonline.com/.../Fossils.pdf · MISSOURI FOSSILS SC/4EC/3A/04/a Essential Skill 32 The student will compare and contrast common fossils

What are fossils - South Woodham Ferrers U3A are fossils.pdf · What are fossils ? Devil’s toenail An iconic fossil for an icon of palaeontology. Mary Anning (1 799-1847), now one

Processes of Sedimentary Rock Formation - Georgia …itc.gsw.edu/faculty/bcarter/ISCI/SedProc.pdf · 2015-09-15 · from a parent and making a sedimentary rock of it. Those steps

Igneous Rocks - Georgia Southwestern State Universityitc.gsw.edu/faculty/bcarter/ISCI/IgRx.pdf · Compositionally igneous rocks are strongly dominated by the few minerals covered

Chemical Bonding - Georgia Southwestern State …itc.gsw.edu/faculty/bcarter/physgeol/min/Bonding.pdfLet’s start thinking about chemical bonding by looking at a simple model –

JOINTS AND FAULTS - Georgia Southwestern State …itc.gsw.edu/faculty/bcarter/histgeol/Structure/faults.pdf · This line is called the fault trace. In the idealized faults we’ll

Fossils - Ms. Wolfe's Classroomsuperscienceteacher.weebly.com/.../fossils.pdf · •Fossils help scientists understand what past environments may have been like. •A fossil is the

Stream Drainage - Georgia Southwestern State Universityitc.gsw.edu/faculty/bcarter/physgeol/river/Drain.pdf · drainage basin of that stream. There always exists some height of land

Meandering Streamsitc.gsw.edu/faculty/bcarter/physgeol/river/Meander.pdf · 2016-04-07 · Notice that even meandering streams do no meander everywhere – there can be long straight

Evolution 1itc.gsw.edu › faculty › bcarter › ISCI › Evolution1.pdfThe tumblebugs are my favorites. Individuals or mating pairs will chew off a piece of a patty, roll it into

Fantastic Fossilsyear1k.primaryblogger.co.uk/.../05/Fantastic-Fossils.pdf · 2020-05-31 · Fossils are more than just ancient bones, which is what many people think. We are going

TYPES OF STREAMS - Georgia Southwestern State …itc.gsw.edu/faculty/bcarter/physgeol/river/TYPES OF STREAMS.pdf · TYPES OF STREAMS (The Causes of Each ... Playfair’s Law describes

The Plate Tectonic Model - Georgia Southwestern State ...itc.gsw.edu/faculty/bcarter/histgeol/Plates13/Model.pdf · The Plate Tectonic Model . ... and volcanoes, such as Mts Kenya

Basic Cell Structure and Functionitc.gsw.edu/faculty/bcarter/ISCI/cell.pdf · Basic Cell Structure and Function ... The DNA is, of course, the material responsible for directing the

Taxonomy - Georgia Southwestern State Universityitc.gsw.edu/faculty/bcarter/ISCI/Taxonomy.pdfBefore the end of the term we’ll come back to this idea, but for now start thinking about

Erwin Raisz’s landform map of the United States.itc.gsw.edu/faculty/bcarter/geomorph/physiog/US_phys.pdfErwin Raisz’s landform map of the United States. Raisz hand-drew landform

Continental Drift Hypothesis - Georgia Southwestern …itc.gsw.edu/faculty/bcarter/ocean/tectonics/Observe6.pdfUnless otherwise noted the artwork and photographs in this slide show

Basic Chemistryitc.gsw.edu/faculty/bcarter/ISCI/chem.pdfmaterial with different characteristics. This is the basic unit of chemistry. Each element has a unique symbol. •Atom –

Mass Wasting - Georgia Southwestern State Universityitc.gsw.edu/faculty/bcarter/physgeol/mass/Mass3.pdf · Mass wasting is the movement of material down a slope by gravity. Water

Plate Tectonics 1itc.gsw.edu/faculty/bcarter/ISCI/SFSpread.pdfEarth’s magnetic field has frequently and sporadically changed its polarity many, many times in the past. The pole reversal

Evolution 2 - Georgia Southwestern State Universityitc.gsw.edu/faculty/bcarter/ISCI/Evolution2.pdf · everyone began congratulating themselves. However, the ones it didn’t kill

Metamorphic Rocks - itc.gsw.eduitc.gsw.edu/faculty/bcarter/ISCI/MetRx.pdf · Metamorphic rocks form when a pre-existing rock, called the parent rock or protolith, is ... from Bowen’s

Photogrpahs and Fossils with imagescanary-lab.vpa.syr.edu/.../09/Photogrpahs-and-Fossils.pdf · 2016-09-16 · In a word: context is constituted by the archive. ... the fetishitic

Plate Tectonics 1 - Georgia Southwestern State Universityitc.gsw.edu/faculty/bcarter/ISCI/Tectonic.pdf · Ctl . IG . This similarity of rocks suggests that all the rocks formed in

PowerPoint Presentationitc.gsw.edu/faculty/bcarter/geomorph/GA_phys.pdf · stones of Mississippian and Cambro-Ordovician age, respectively. The Great Valley District - The Great Valley

University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia · Web viewUniversity of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland Australia Email: [email protected] Abstract: Knowledge of the status

Weathering - Georgia Southwestern State Universityitc.gsw.edu/faculty/bcarter/physgeol/weather/Weathering.pdf · Weathering – The set of processes operating at or near Earth’s