FossilHub – Page 8 – PALAEONTOLOGY (AND GEOLOGY) CENTRAL

October 9, 2013

An Introduction to Geology: 1 (updated)

BEGINNINGS Lecture 1 handouts: 2014_IntroGeol_Lect1_SML (PowerPoint) 2014_IntroGeol_Lect1_SML (PDF) Useful links: James Hutton: Founder of Modern Geology (American Museum of Natural History article) Neptunism vs Plutonism (a Scientific American article) Charles Lyell and uniformitarianism (University of California Berkeley article) Darwin the geologist (Darwin correspondence project) How to use zircons to trace the earliest rocks on Earth (AMNH article) The Oldest Rock...

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August 23, 2013

Bodies of Evidence

I am organizing the Palaeontological Association-sponsored session at the 2013 British Science Festival in Newcastle. It is called Bodies of Evidence, will run at the Great North Museum on Sunday September 9th, and it is going to be dead great. Literally, as the event will be packed to the rafters with amazing fossils of long-gone creatures. How do we figure...

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June 26, 2013

An Introduction To Fossils

To download the slides for my University of York Lifelong Learning class on fossils, click the following links: 2013_IntroFossils_pt1 2013_IntroFossils_pt2 For further information on fossils, the following websites are useful: Natural History Museum, London – fossils Natural History Museum, London – fossils of Britain Oxford University Museum – identifying invertebrate fossils BBC Nature – fossils British Geological Survey – Fossil...

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April 22, 2013

PalAss vs Paxman

In 2004, the Palaeontological Association entered University Challenge: The Professionals, hosted by the mighty Sir Jezza Paxo. Should you wish to read an HILARIOUS* account of this great moment in British televisual history, click this link: Palass_v_Paxman *I wrote it, so I may be biased.

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March 25, 2013

Life Through Time – Evolutionary Palaeontology (week 8)

The slides (colour) for the final week’s class can be downloaded here: 2013_LifeThruTime_Lect8_colour. I will add a black and white version shortly. The links for the class are as follows: “Big Bang Big Boom” is a 10-minute animation of the evolution of life, and is well worth a watch. Click here to view it. Did bird brains help them survive...

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March 18, 2013

Fossils of the Yorkshire Dales

DISCLAIMER: The resources below were for a 2013 class at the Centre for Lifelong Learning at the University of York, and most of the links no longer work! A colour pdf of the notes from the class can be downloaded here: 2013_YorksDales_colour. Below are a selection of links relevant to Yorkshire Dales geology and fossils… General geo-info To start with,...

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March 18, 2013

Life Through Time – Evolutionary Palaeontology (Week 7)

A colour pdf of the notes for week 7’s class can be downloaded here: 2013_LifeThruTime_Lect7_colour. I will try to add a black and white version soon. Links for week 7’s class are as follows: Chen & Benton’s (2012) paper on the recovery of life after the end-Permian extinction can be read here: Chen_Benton2012_PT_recovery Was Nyasasaurus the first dinosaur? Read about...

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March 11, 2013

Life Through Time – Evolutionary Palaeontology (Week 6)

The pdf of the class 6 lecture notes can be found here: 2013_LifeThruTime_Lect6 The vertebrate palaeontologist Darren Naish has written a series of general interest articles on the origins of tetrapods, including a piece on temnospondyls that can be read here. Professor Jenny Clack of Cambridge University is one of the world’s leading experts on early tetrapods. Her website, which...

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March 5, 2013

Geology of the Yorkshire Coast (Saturday class)

PDF files of the 4 sections of Saturday’s class on the Geology of the Yorkshire Coast can be found here: 2013_YorksCoast_part1 2013_YorksCoast_part2 2013_YorksCoast_part3 2013_YorksCoast_part4 The links in each file should be clickable, but I will try to add them here at a later date too. In the mean time, to help you understand the terms used on your geological maps,...

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February 27, 2013

Life Through Time – Evolutionary Palaeontology (Week 5)

The pdf of the lecture notes for week 5 can be found here: 2013_LifeThruTime_Lect5 Classifying species An interesting overview of fossils and the species concept can be read here. The International Code on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) explains why Carl von Linne/Carolus Linnaeus is the type specimen of Homo sapiens here. The Natural History Museum, meanwhile, explains the taxonomy of Neanderthals...

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