To learn more about telling
geologic time, visit the following web sites:
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Species
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What
are species and sub-specific taxa?,
University of Toronto
Visit this online library resource to obtain information on distinguishing organisms from one another. Learn the taxonomic identification beginning with species, continuing through subspecies, varieties, and forma. This site primarily focuses on the taxonomy of vascular plants.
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The
Precambrian and Vendian Mass Extinctions,
Hooper Virtual Paleontological Museum
Learn about two mass extinction events that affected life's earliest organisms.
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A History
of Extinction,
World Resources Institute
A brief discussion on mass extinction rates, human impact on extinctions, and the effects of
endemic and introduced species.
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The Fossil
Record
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Evolution and
the Fossil Record,
American Geosciences Institute (AGI)
Explore this online publication to learn more about evolution and the fossil record.
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Taxonomy, Transitional
Forms, and the Fossil Record,
Kansas State University
Visit this site to learn more about the benefits and limitations of the fossil record.
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Stratigraphic
Correlation
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Sequence Stratigraphy
Terminology,
University of South Carolina
This university's web site offers an online glossary of terms, illustrations, and links related to stratigraphy.
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Sequence Stratigraphy
Animated GIFS,
University of South Carolina
This location provides animated GIF files describing various stratigraphic processes.
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Index Fossils,
USGS
Learn why index fossils are useful to stratigraphers in correlating relative time scale and
view some of the most common index fossils through time.
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Dating
Rocks
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Fossils, Rocks,
and Time,
USGS
Learn about the relative and numeric time scales, rocks and layers, fossils and rocks, and fossil succession.
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Relative Time
Scale,
USGS
Visit this site to learn more about the human history of establishing the relative time scale for Earth history. Diagrams illustrate how strata are used as a scale.
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Evolution
and the Fossil Record,
AGI
This online resource provides information on the absolute dating of rocks using biostratigraphy and radioactivity. It also offers graphys and pictures to aid your understanding of rock dating.
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Relative
Age Dating Using Fossils,
Texas A&M University
A lesson using fossil data to determine relative ages of cores.
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This project is supported, in part, by the National Science Foundation and the AGI Foundation. Opinions expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the Foundation.
