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Cratons and mobile belts of the world. The Solar System. Nebula in Serpens Constellation. Neo-Laplace Hypothesis. Iron Catastrophe. Granite/gneiss complex. Heat decay curve. Archean Pilbara shield, Australia. Greenstone belt. Iceland model for felsic crust. Greenstone belt
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Cratons and mobile belts of the world The Solar System
Nebula in Serpens Constellation Neo-Laplace Hypothesis Iron Catastrophe
Granite/gneiss complex Heat decay curve Archean Pilbara shield, Australia Greenstone belt Iceland model for felsic crust Greenstone belt origin models
Wopmay Orogeny NA geologic provinces
NA cratonic features Varangian carbon Isotope record Proterozoic supercontinents
Oldest cells Cyanobacteria Warrawoona Group, (3.5 ba) Black Smokers and origin of life Miller/Urey experiment
First eukaryote, 2.1 ba Multicellular, Grypania, Michigan BIF, Michigan Proterozoic eubacteria (above), a acritarch (below) Proposed origin of eukaryotes
Carbon isotopes and biotic events 1.3 ba Greyson Shale, Belt Supergroup Ediocara fauna, Australia
Late Cambrian paleogeography Sedimentation in M. Cambrian Laurentia Sloss Sequences
Ordovician paleogeography C and O isotope record, Ordovician Sloss Sequences
Taconic exotic terranes NA, latest Ordovician Taconic collision Appalachian Basin
First skeletons L. Cambrian, Siberia Tommotian mollusk Archaeocyathid reef Tommotian unknowns
M. CAMBRIAN BURGESS SHALE FAUNA Anomalocaris, Arthropod? (2m) Unknown echinoderms Trilobite-like arthropod Polychaete worm Onycophoran Pikaia, chordate Opabina, arthropod?
Orovician benthonic community Ichnofabraics Diversity Vs time
Fossil (above) and evolution (left) of a Devonian reef Phylogeny of first aminoids Hunsruck Shale, Germany Eurypterid Devonian benthonic community
Fish evolution Devonian ostracoderms Evolution of the jaw
Devonian placoderm (Dunkleosteus, 7m) chases shark (Cladoselache, 2m) Devonian Acanthodian (Climatius, 7.5cm) Devonian Ray-finned fish (Cheirolepis, 55cm) Modern lobe-finned fish Coelacanth
Plant evolution E. Devonian plantscape E.D. vascular plant, Rhynia E. Devonian tree (Archaeopteris, 30m)
Lobe-finned fish and amphibian compaired Modern lobe-finned fish Coelacanth Primitive amphibian Ichthyostega on Eospermatopteris trunk by lobe- finned fish Eusthenopteron (left) and lungfish Rhynchodipterus (right)
Carbon trends Mid. Paleozoic paleogeography Mass extinctions Silurian Michigan and Ohio basins Sloss sequences
Devonian Euramerica Avalon terrane Devonian Appalachian Basin Antler Orogeny
Carboniferous paleogeography Sloss sequences Permian paleogeography
Appalachian Mountains Ancestral Rockies Appalachian Basin Flatirons in Boulder, Co
Cyclothem model Penn. cyclothems U.S. Penn. coal basins CO2 trends Permian Basin Delaware Basin fill
Productoids Fusulinid Mississippian mud mound Plant evolution
Late Permian Therapsids Early Permian water hole Permian boundary Permian C ratios