West Virginia University

Geology 331, Paleontology

Dr. Thomas Kammer

 

Interesting Web Pages

Tree of Life web project

PBS series on EVOLUTION web site

Career Info: www.bls.gov/oco/content/ocos050.stm

 www.aapg.org/careers/index.cfm

www.earthscienceworld.org/careers

www.agiweb.org/workforce/reports.html

Geology Jobs, Dept. web site

The End of Cheap Oil: http://dieoff.com/page140.htm

Why are we Running out of Oil? http://palaeo-electronica.org/2008_2/commentary/oil.htm

GSA on Evolution and Creationism

Genesis Revisited

 Paleontology on the Web - check here for some great sites

 

Syllabus

Syllabus, Writing Section

Outside Readings

Foram Evolution Data Set

 

Start of Test 1 material

Adequacy of the Fossil Record - also see your class notes

Data on Crinoid Diversity

Principles of Historical Geology

Geologic Time Scale

Radiometric Dating Lecture in PDF

Radiometric Dating Lecture - Notes in HTML

Biodiversity of the Fossil Record in PDF

Evolution Lecture in PDF format

Evolution Lecture - Notes in HTML

Evolution Videos

Evolution Slides in PDF format

Mass Extinctions in PDF format

Mass Extinctions text in Word

 K/T Mass Extinction in PDF

Study Guide for Test 1

Test 1 (Thru Mass Extinctions)

 

Field Trip is Saturday, Oct. 10, 2009

9 a.m. departure, Lot 7 across from Brooks Hall

Biostratigraphy in PDF

Stratigraphic Guide

Precambrian Fossils in PDF

Primordial Soup with Julia Child

First Bilaterian, 600 MY

Invertebrates of the Phanerozoic in PDF

Trace Fossils in PDF

Study Guide for Test 2

Test 2 (Biostrat to Trace Fossils)

 

Web links from PBS Evolution Web Site

(Web links in a Word file)

Tree of Life Web Page

Guiness "Evolution" video

Fish and Tetrapods in PDF

Your inner fish: Neil Shubin on Colbert Report, 1-15-08

Fish with Fingers - Jenny Clack

Reptiles in PDF

Dinosaur Paleobiology in PDF

  Birds in PDF

Mammal Evolution in PDF

Whales in PDF

Horses in PDF

Humans in PDF

Study Guide for Test 3

Test 3 (Vertebrates)

 

 

The Silurian trilobite Comura

 

A Mesozoic crinoid

 

Archaeopteryx

 

Velociraptor

 

 

 

 

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