Geological Time Hotlist

Geological Time Hotlist
An Internet Hotlist on Geological Time

created by Jane Orbuch
San Lorenzo Valley High School

Introduction
You COULD look for books or magazines to find out about Geological Time, but why not use the power of the Internet instead? The links below will get you started.

The Internet Resources

Geological Time

1999 Geotime scale -
A Tapestry of Time and Terrain: Map - Cool map of geological ages of US topography
Anthropocene: A Man-made world--The Economist -
Comprehending Geological Time--a calculator -
End of an Epoch--no more holocene - Living on Earth
Etymology of geological time units -
Fossil Horse Cybermuseum -
Geologic Ages of Earth History -
Geological Time Chart Test - Try this, pretty intense --try at least eons and eras.
Geological Time--Earth Floor -
Interactive Geological Timescale -
Putting Time in Proportion -
Regional Paleogeographic Views of Earth History - lots of tectonic plate maps from earth history
Sedimental Journey - Fossils in the context of geological time
Trips through Time - Virtual field tirps on quaternary, tertiary and devonian periods.

Best for Powerpoints

A Brief History of Life--flash interactive -
Deep Time - Flash tutorial
Dinosaur Timeline Gallery - Precambrian Era, Cambrian and Ordovician periods, Carboniferous prehistoric sharks and Permian reptiles. Mesozoic dinosaurs Brachiosaurus, Diplodocus, Camarasaurus, Ceratosaurus, Stegosaurus, Dilophosaurus and Allosaurus from Jurassic period. Albertosaurus, Corythosaurus, Tyrannosaurus rex, Anatosaurus, Parasaurolophus, Carnotaurus, Triceratops, Tarbosaurus, Monoclonius, Gallimimus from Cretaceous period. Prehistoric animals such as Indricotherium from Tertiary period, Brontotherium from Oligocene epoch. Wooly Mammoth, Saber Tooth Cat, Arctodus simus, Panthera leo atrox, Columbian Mammoth, Mastodon and Coelodonta from Pleistocene.
Doug Henderson's Paleomarine life - Creataceous illustrations
Eons, Epochs, Etc--Exploring the AGes of life on EArth - by an 'armchair paleontologist'--so not the best most technical science.
Evolving Planet: Tour Through Time -
Gaia's Evil Twin: Is Life its Own Worst Enemy - History of Mass Extinctions--timeline
Geological Time Field Guide -
Geological Time Machine -
Geological Time Scale--enchanted learning -
Geological Timechart -
Geological Timeline -
Geotime Scale with Links -
Life Through Geological Time - Pictorial History of Life through time
Mass Extinctions with Illustrations/Plates -
Paleogeography through Geologic Time -
Paleomap - Earth history, climate history and maps of plate tectonics through time
Paleovegetation Reconstruction links -
Plate Tectonic Reconstructions - 750 Ma ----- Late Neo-Proterozoic 460 Ma ----- Late Ordovician 450 Ma ----- Late Ordovician 200 Ma ----- Early Jurassic 140 Ma ----- Early Cretaceous 110 Ma ---- Early Cretaceous reconstruction of the South Atlantic free-air gravity data 65 Ma ----- Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary 40 Ma ----- Bartonian, Early Eocene 30 Ma ----- Oligocene Present Day 100 m.y. into the Future Orthographic projection (produced October 2008) 550 Ma ----- Earliest Cambrian 400 Ma ----- Early Devonian 300 Ma ----- Late P
Prehistoric Interactive Timeline--National Geographic -
Smithsonian: Geological Time: Story of a Changing Earth -
Sources of Fossil Clip Art -
USGS--Geological Time -
an Overview of Earth History -
the Geological Timescale -

Radioactive Dating

Earthtime: calibrating earth history through teamwork and collaboration -
Radioactive Dating Game -
Record of Time:An Introduction to Fossils and Paleoanthropologic Dating Methods -
Virtual Age Dating - A well-presented activity on radioactive dating. Do virtual dating isochron.

Paleontology/Fossils

Dino Directory -
Discover History of Life -
Explorations Through Time -
Field Adventures in Paleontology -
Follow a Fossil -
Fossil Sites on the Web -
Learning from the Fossil Record -
Paleoclimate Information - ice cores, tree rings, sediment cores etc
Paleoclimatology News--Science Daily - Good to browse for recent discoveries
Paleontology News--Science Daily - Good to browse for recent discoveries
Stromatolite Explorer - requires quicktime
The Paleobiology Database - The Paleobiology Database is a public resource for the global scientific community. It has been organized and operated by a multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional, international group of paleobiological researchers. Its purpose is to provide global, collection-based occurrence and taxonomic data for marine and terrestrial animals and plants of any geological age, as well as web-based software for statistical analysis of the data.
The Way Fossils Form - Requires Flash Player 6
What Killed the Dinosaurs - Web activity
What is a Fossil and How do They Form? -
fossilization - requires flash 6

Media/Interactives

Life: A Journey Through Time: Frans Lanting -

Origin of LIfe

Evolution and Oxygen - utube video--oxygen catastrophe/cyanobactera
Origins of LIfe Movie-2001 -
The Evolution of Life in 60 seconds--YouTube -

Content by Jane Orbuch, jorbuch@slvusd.org
http://www.kn.att.com/wired/fil/pages/listgeologicja.html
Last revised Sat May 5 14:36:07 US/Pacific 2012