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Environments Through Time - from HSC Online, Charle Sturt University and Department of Education
http://hsc.csu.edu.au/earth_environmental/core/time/Lecture Notes for Geology 105: History of Life. These are lecture outlines with some useful facts on topics such as Relative Time, Extinction, The Cambrian Explosion, The Invasion of Land, The Permo-Triassic Extinctions and Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinctions.
http://www.es-designs.com/geol105/lectures/The Virtual Fossil Museum
http://www.fossilmuseum.net/index.htmTAKE OUR WEB GEOLOGICAL TIME MACHINE - from the Museum of Paleontology, University of California Berkeley includes Cambrian explosion and extinctions.
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/help/timeform.htmlPaleotraveller - from Minerals Council of Australia. Scroll down to use an online Simulation
'Virtual' time travel enables to view the movement of crustal plates and track the changing location of the Australian continent. http://www.minerals.org.au/education/secondary/secondary_resources/down_to_earth_learning_objects_1-3Rock Back in Time - from Minerals Council of Australia. Scroll down to use an online Simulation
http://www.minerals.org.au/education/secondary/secondary_resources/down_to_earth_learning_objects_1-3Prehistoric Life - from Museum Victoria including What is a fossil?, Victoria's fossils and Australia's megafauna
http://www.museum.vic.gov.au/prehistoric/Evolution and The Fossil Records - a 36 page pdf file published by the American Geological Institute and the Paleontological Society
http://www.agiweb.org/news/evolution.pdfGlobal Environmental Change - from University of California, Berkeley, Lecture 17
http://geography.berkeley.edu/ProgramCourses/CoursePagesFA2002/Geog40/Geog40.Week7.htmlThe Earth as a Planet - from Federation of American Scientists
http://www.fas.org/irp/imint/docs/rst/Sect19/Sect19_2a.html
Life in the Archaean, Proterozoic and Phanerozoic
Geological Time LineStromatolitesGeologic Time Line - from Fossil-Facts-and-Finds
http://www.fossils-facts-and-finds.com/geologic_time_line.htmlThe Clock Of Eras And Geologic Time - from Fossil-Facts-and-Finds
http://www.fossils-facts-and-finds.com/clock_of_eras.htmlEarth Science Lesson Plans On Geologic Time - from Fossil-Facts-and-Finds
http://www.fossils-facts-and-finds.com/earth_science_lesson_plans_on_geologic_time.htmlGeologic Age: Using Radioactive Decay to Determine Geologic Age - from The Learning Web, United States Geological Survey
http://interactive2.usgs.gov/learningweb/teachers/geoage.htmBanded Iron FormationStromatolites - from Geological Survey of Western Australia, Department of Industry and Resources, WA
http://www.doir.wa.gov.au/GSWA/5324C322356F454E8576EC29791518E2.aspHamelin Pool Marine Nature Reserve - one of only two places in the world with living marine stromatolites, from Department of Environment and Conservation, WA
http://www.naturebase.net/component/option,com_hotproperty/task,view/id,56/Itemid,755/Shark Bay - Stromatolites - from Shark Bay World Heritage Web Site
http://www.sharkbay.org/terrestial_enviroment/page_15.htmThe Wonderful World of Stromatolites - from Hooper Virtual Natural History Museum
http://hoopermuseum.earthsci.carleton.ca/stromatolites/ENTER.htmAbout Stromatolites... - from a Virtual Field Trip to the Petrified Sea Gardens
http://www.petrifiedseagardens.org/stromat.htmStromatolite Fossils in the Hakatai Shale - a virtual field trip in Grand Canyon National Park, scroll down to The Significance of Stromatolites
http://www.rockhounds.com/grand_hikes/hikes/stromatolites_in_the_hakatai/STROMATOLITE - from Niigata Science Museum, Japan
http://www.lalanet.gr.jp/nsm/E-stromatolite.htmlFossil FormationFormation of Iron - from Geoscience Australia
http://www.ga.gov.au/education/minerals/ironform.htmlEarth's Early Years: Differentiation, Water and Early Atmosphere - from Global Change, University of Michigan
http://www.globalchange.umich.edu/globalchange1/current/lectures/first_billion_years/first_billion_years.htmlBanded Iron Formation - from University of Oregon
http://jersey.uoregon.edu/~mstrick/RogueComCollege/RCC_Lectures/Banded_Iron.htmlAUSTRALIA BEFORE TIME: our geological and fossil heritage - from Australian Heritage Commission
http://www.ahc.gov.au/publications/geofossil/window.htmlEarliest evidence of lifeHOW FOSSILS FORM - from Enchanted Learning
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/dinosaurs/dinofossils/Fossilhow.htmlLife on Earth suddenly a billion years older - a report from News in Science, the lab, ABC Online
http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s62487.htmAustralia fossil to help in search for life on Mars - from CNN
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/space/9909/03/space.fossil/index.html
THE EARLIEST LIFE - from University of Munster
http://www.uni-muenster.de/GeoPalaeontologie/Palaeo/Palbot/seite1.htmlIntroduction to the Cyanobacteria - from Museum of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/bacteria/cyanointro.htmlCyanobacteria: Fossil Record - from Museum of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/bacteria/cyanofr.html[Back to top of page ] Importance of the ozone layer
PhanerozoicChemistry Now - Chemistry of the atmosphere - a 5 page leaflet on this topic from the ChemSoc (Chemical Society), download in pdf format
http://www.chemsoc.org/networks/learnnet/chemnow_atmos.htmIntroduction to Ozone - from LEARN: Atmospheric Science Explorers (LEARN)
http://www.ucar.edu/learn/1_5_1.htmStratospheric Oxygen - online textbook from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
http://www.ccpo.odu.edu/SEES/ozone/oz_class.htmOzone Layer - from Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozone_layerTWENTY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT THE OZONE LAYER - pdf file from World Meteorological Organisation
Atmospheric oxygen over Phanerozoic time - from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA
http://www.wmo.ch/web/arep/reports/ozone_2002/11_q&as.pdf
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/96/20/10955The Phanerozoic Eon: The Eon of Multicelluar Life - from PALAEOS: The Trace of Life on Earth
http://www.palaeos.com/Timescale/Phanerozoic.htmGeological Time Machine - from Museum of Paleontology, University of California Berkeley
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/help/timeform.htmlGeological Time Scale - from Museum of Victoria
http://www.museum.vic.gov.au/prehistoric/what/geotime.htmlGeological time and the age of rocks - pdf file, 2 pages, from Museum Victoria
http://www.museum.vic.gov.au/infosheets/10134.pdfGeological Time Scale - 1 page, from Australian Museum, shows major extinctions
http://amonline.net.au/geoscience/pdf/geo_time_scale.pdf[Back to top of page ] The Cambrian event
EdiacaraRelative and Absolute DatingThe Cambrian ExplosionThe Cambrian Explosion - from University of Bristol
http://palaeo.gly.bris.ac.uk/Palaeofiles/Cambrian/Index.htmlEdiacaran Biota - from Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ediacaran_biotaThe Cambrian Explosion - from Evolution Library, PBS Online
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/03/4/l_034_02.htmlTime Lords Announce a new Period in the Calender of Earth History -ftrom SA Museum, The Ediacaran Period is the first new rung in the ladder of geological time periods to be adopted in 120 years, and the first to be based on rocks in the Southern Hemisphere.
http://www.samuseum.sa.gov.au/page/default.asp?site=1&id=583&fragPage=1The 'New' Ediacaran Period - from Geoscience Australia
http://www.ga.gov.au/ausgeonews/ausgeonews200512/timescales.jspYou say Ediacaran, I say Vendian - from ABC web site
http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/enviro/EnviroRepublish_1112450.htmFossils from forgotten time amaze - from BBC, UK
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/science/nature/3898605.stmHot debate over earliest vertebrate claim - from ABC Science News
http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/2003/984724.htmEdiacaran images - black and white diagrams from The Society for the Study of the Origin and Evolution of Life, Japan
http://www.origin-life.gr.jp/3204/3204191/fig1.jpgReconstruction Ediacaran environment - colour image, source unknown
http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/Sciences/Paleontology/Paleozoology/Precambrian/ediacaran.gifReconstruction Ediacaran environment - colour image, from The Palaeobiology and Biodiversity Research Group, University of Bristol
http://palaeo.gly.bris.ac.uk/Palaeofiles/Taph/Report2/Ediacaran.gifEdiacara Hills, Australia - from Museum of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/vendian/ediacara.htmlThe Ediacaran Assemblage - from a personal NZ website
http://www.peripatus.gen.nz/paleontology/Ediacara.html9.3 Environments through time: 3.The Cambrian event - from HSC Online, Charles Sturt University
http://hsc.csu.edu.au/earth_environmental/core/time/9_3_3/933net.htmlThe Quickening: Beginning of Animal Life on Earth - from Royal Society of NSW.
Abstract and Notes of a talk by Professor Patricia Vickers-Rich, Monash
http://nsw.royalsoc.org.au/talks_2005/talk_Sep2005.htmlCambrian Explosion and Population Growth from University of Miami, Department of Biology
http://www.bio.miami.edu/tom/bil160/bil160goods/15_cambrian.htmlBiota of the Burgess Shale - black and white reconstruction of environment
http://www.palaeos.com/Paleozoic/Cambrian/Images/burgess_community.gifBurgess Shale fossils - a locality in British Columbia, Canada with a exceptional collection of Cambrian fossils, from University of Calgary
http://www.geo.ucalgary.ca/~macrae/Burgess_Shale/The Burgess Shale : A Hidden Treasure In The Canadian Rockies - from The Hooper Virtual Natural History Museum
http://park.org/Canada/Museum/burgessshale/titlen.htmlThe Burgess Shale - from University of Bristol
http://palaeo.gly.bris.ac.uk/Palaeofiles/Lagerstatten/Burgess/index.htmlThe Cambrian Explosion: Biology's Big Bang - from Cascadia Community College
http://www.cascadia.ctc.edu/facultyweb/instructors/jvanleer/camb%20expl/the_cambrian_explosion.htmThe Cambrian Explosion - from the University of Bristol
http://palaeo.gly.bris.ac.uk/Palaeofiles/Cambrian/Index.htmlThe Cambrian Explosion - from The Virtual Fossil Museum
http://www.fossilmuseum.net/Paleobiology/CambrianExplosion.htmThe Dawn of Animal Life - from Miller Museum of Geology, Queen's University, Canada
http://geol.queensu.ca/museum/exhibits/dawnex.htmlDating Techniques - MSU EMuseum, Minnesota State University
http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/archaeology/dating/Virtual dating - from Geology Labs On-line
http://www.sciencecourseware.org/VirtualDating/WHO'S ON FIRST? A RELATIVE DATING ACTIVITY - a classroom activity (student and teacher versions provided)from Museum of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/fosrec/BarBar.htmlLEARNING FROM THE FOSSIL RECORD - from the Museum of Paleontology, University of California Berkerley
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/fosrec/Determining the age of rocks and fossils - from Victorian Museum
http://www.museum.vic.gov.au/prehistoric/what/fossilage.html[Back to top of page ] The theory of evolution and moving on land
Terrestrialization - from the Hooper Virtual Natural History Museum
http://hoopermuseum.earthsci.carleton.ca/terrestrialization/Historical Perspective, Darwin and Evolution - from University of Miami, Department of Biology
http://www.bio.miami.edu/tom/bil160/bil160goods/03_darwin.htmlPlants onto land - The algae through the gymnosperms. - from University of Miami, Department of Biology
http://www.bio.miami.edu/tom/bil160/bil160goods/12_toland.htmlVertebrate Evolution II: Life on land vs. life in the water - from University of Miami, Department of Biology
http://www.bio.miami.edu/tom/bil160/bil160goods/20_verts2.html[Back to top of page ] A fossil site - diversity and numbers
Fossil Sites of Australia - from Australian Museum Online
http://www.amonline.net.au/fossil_sites/Koonwarra: A Famous Victorian Fossil Field - from Museum Victoria
http://www.museum.vic.gov.au/prehistoric/fossils/koonwarra.htmlRiversleigh - from Australian Museum Online
http://www.amonline.net.au/fossil_sites/riversleigh.htmRiversleigh - from ABC
http://www.abc.net.au/science/ausbeasts/sites/riversleigh.htmFauna and Flora found at the Riversleigh Sites - from University of Bristol
http://palaeo.gly.bris.ac.uk/Palaeofiles/Lagerstatten/Rivers/riversleigh3.htmlNaracoorte Caves World Heritage Area - from National Parks, South Australia
http://www.parks.sa.gov.au/naracoorte/about/index.htm#fossilsNARACOORTE CAVES, FOSSIL FACTS AND THEORIES. - a pdf file covering the fossils fact at Naracoorte Caves, SA
http://www.parks.sa.gov.au/publish/groups/public/@parks/@uppersoutheast/documents/all/005605.pdfWonambi Fossil Centre - A Virtual Tour - from National Parks, South Australia
http://www.parks.sa.gov.au/naracoorte/wonambi/index.htmLocalities of the Vendian: Ediacara Hills, Australia from the Museum of Paleonotology, University of California, Berkeley
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/vendian/ediacara.htmlEdiacara Assemblage - from University of Bristol
http://palaeo.gly.bris.ac.uk/Palaeofiles/Lagerstatten/Ediacara/title.htmThe Gogo Formation - from University of Bristol
http://palaeo.gly.bris.ac.uk/Palaeofiles/Lagerstatten/Gogo/index.htmlMazon Creek Fossils - from Illinois State Museum - contains plant and animal fossils dated at 300 million years old
http://www.museum.state.il.us/exhibits/mazon_creek/Burgess Shale fossils - a locality in British Columbia, Canada with a exceptional collection of Cambrian fossils, from University of Calgary
http://www.geo.ucalgary.ca/~macrae/Burgess_Shale/Jurassic Cliffs - on the coast of west Dorset, UK, by an amateur palaeontologist
http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~gcaselton/fossil/fossil.htmlJurassic Field Trip Guide - from University of Southampton
http://www.soton.ac.uk/~imw/bridport.htmThe Solnhofen Limestone of Germany - famous Jurassic fossil locality - from the University of California, Berkeley
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/mesozoic/jurassic/solnhofen.htmlThe Solnhofen Lithographic Limestone - from University of Bristol
http://palaeo.gly.bris.ac.uk/Palaeofiles/Lagerstatten/solnhofen/index.html[Back to top of page ] Past extinctions and mass extinctions
Extinctions - Past and Present by Barry Brook - from Ecoscience, International Science School 2007, The University of Sydney
http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/foundation/Outreach/ISS/book/ecoscience_part2.pdfAustralia's Megafauna - a WebQuest produced by UniServe Science on the Australia's megafauna and possible causes for its extinction
http://science.uniserve.edu.au/school/quests/mgfauna.htmlMass Extinctions Of The Phanerozoic Menu - from Canada Musuem
http://park.org/Canada/Museum/extinction/extincmenu.htmlExtinction event - from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_eventThe Permo-Triassic extinction - from University of Bristol
http://palaeo.gly.bris.ac.uk/Palaeofiles/Permian/intro.htmlGEOL 104 Dinosaurs: A Natural History - from University of Marylands, see mainly December lectures on Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction
http://www.geol.umd.edu/~tholtz/G104/104Syl.htmThe Extinction Files - from BBC Education
http://www.ecology.com/archived-links/cambrian-extinction/index.htmlDinosaur Extinction - from Enchanted Learning Software
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/dinosaurs/extinction/The Asteroid Impact vs. Volcano-Greenhouse Dinosaur Extinction Debate - by Dewey McLean, Virginia Tech
http://filebox.vt.edu/artsci/geology/mclean/Dinosaur_Volcano_Extinction/THE K-T EXTINCTION - from Museum of Paleontology, University of California
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/education/events/cowen1b.htmlThe K-T Event - from University of Bristol
http://palaeo.gly.bris.ac.uk/communication/KT.htmlIce Age Mammals and their Extinction - from Museum Victoria
http://www.museum.vic.gov.au/prehistoric/mammals/Mystery surrounds the death of Australia's megafauna - a news story from Planet Ark
http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/12091/story.htmDinosaur Mass Extinction - from Museum Victoria
http://www.museum.vic.gov.au/prehistoric/dinosaurs/extinction.htmlExtinctions: Cycles of Life and Death Through Time - from the Hooper Virtual Paleontological Museum
http://hannover.park.org/Canada/Museum/extinction/homepg.htmlEnvironmental and Biological Implications of an Asteroid Impact: A Look at the K/T Boundary - from the Hooper Virtual Paleontological Museum
http://hoopermuseum.earthsci.carleton.ca/impacts/index.htmExtinction - from University of Miami, Department of Biology
http://www.bio.miami.edu/tom/bil160/bil160goods/10_extinct.htmlMeteorites, Impacts, and Mass Extinction - from Tulane University
http://www.tulane.edu/~sanelson/geol204/impacts.htm[Back to top of page ]
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