Geology of the Black Hills part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This presents a virtual geology field trip of the Black Hills. The topics that are covered include the general geology of the area, engineering and environmental issues, economic uses such as gold ...

Taphonomy: New Branch of Paleontology part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This site contains an article by Ivan Efremov from a 1940 issue of the Pan-American Geologist. This article was the first to define the field of taphonomy, which is the study of the effects of burial ...

Violence in the Bogs part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This website from the Archeological Institute of America features images and descriptions of human bodies that have been preserved in bogs in Europe. For each case, there is an archeological ...

Ichnology of Sea Turtles part of SERC Web Resource Collection

Through observance of marks left by sea turtle nesting and movement patterns along with accompanying cross-sections of nests, this web page uses a modern analog to describe sea turtle tracks and ...

Ichnofacies part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This web page provides an overview of some of the types of ichnofacies. Using diagrams, descriptions and a chart, this page describes the different ichnofacies as they transition from offshore to ...

Dinosaur Bone Histology part of SERC Web Resource Collection

The internal architecture of fossilized bones records the entire history of growth throughout the life of the individual, and provides important clues to the growth rates, longevities, and growth ...

Trackroom Tour part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This website from Amherst College contains some selected images of dinosaur tracks from the Hitchcock Cabinet at Amherst College, the largest collection of dinosaur footprints in the world. The ...

Understanding Evolution: Evo-Devo part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This module from the University of California Museum of Paleontology explores and defines various aspects of evo-devo including evolutionary history, evolutionary constraints, complexity and ...

Evolution and Development for the 21st Century part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This page from the University of California Museum of Paleontology is concerned with the unification of evolution and development as a field by Stephen Jay Gould in his book Ontogeny and Phylogeny. ...

The Permo-Triassic Extinction part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This website contains a collection of pages concerning different aspects of the Permo-Triassic extinction, the largest mass extinction of all time. The pages address different scenarios for the ...