A History Of Life

1. Ichthyosaur turbidites
(Taphonomy/Vertebrate Transport & Burial)

...ampaign. Here island arc vulcanoes where active during the mid Norian, in the Trias (about 210 million years ago). Along the submarine slope of the volcano, sudden deliveries of pyroclasts triggere...

2. The forgotten ingredient
(Theory of evolution/Earth Science matters)

.... This factor in evolution was perceived (albeit not definitely: Burchfield 1975, Gould 1987) during the years of Darwin’s own formation as a naturalist, himself having contributed in focusing its imp...

3. Strange Science
(Theory of evolution/Earth Science matters)

...n interested amateur" paleontologist, but she started posting old pictures from books a couple of years ago and the site took off'. Not much more to say, but a suggestion to go there...

4. San Miniato and the history of Earth Science
(Paleontological sites/Neogene Europe)

...re you can enjoy dipping into history of science (a few centuries back) and earth history (a few million years back). ...

5. Back to the Basin
(Paleontological sites/Paleogene Europe)

...are claimed to bear the record of the highest molluscan diversity of the Cenozoic, lagging a few million years after the early Eocene climatic optimum (Didier Merle, personal communication - with an u...

6. Man's roots, man's routes
(Theory of evolution/Man\'s evolution)

...larizing evolutionary theory or the simple curious person. From African origins some 160,000 years ago, through the first crossings of the original continent, to the dawn of agricolture. B...

7. Manifesto
(Static Content)

... Solar Systems, but just one planet is positively known to be blessed with life. One lifetime - counting years from the birth of web 2.0 - may not be enough to get to know a single extraterrestrial or...