Banded Iron Formations, Australia part of Cutting Edge:Enhance Your Teaching:Teaching with Online Field Experiences:Activities
The banded iron formations (BIFs) of Karijini Gorge in Western Australia are distinctive units of sedimentary rock that are almost always of Precambrian age. This unique formation is the largest iron deposit on ...
Exploring the Grand Caynon (unguided VFT) part of Cutting Edge:Enhance Your Teaching:Teaching with Online Field Experiences:Activities
Nearly two billion years of the Earth's geological history has been exposed as the Colorado River and its tributaries cut their channels through layers of rock while the Colorado Plateau was uplifted. ...
Knossos Ancient Lake Environment, Australia part of Cutting Edge:Enhance Your Teaching:Teaching with Online Field Experiences:Activities
The 2.73 Ga Knossos Locality is a succession of clastic and carbonate rocks outcropping along the southern margin of the Pilbara Craton in Western Australia. It hosts abundant, diverse and exceptionally ...
Marble Bar, Australia part of Cutting Edge:Enhance Your Teaching:Teaching with Online Field Experiences:Activities
The Marble Bar Chert of Western Australia, is one of the earliest sedimentary deposits on Earth. The Marble Bar Chert, along with the presence of pillow basalts, could be an important part of Earth's early ...
Exploring the Grand Canyon: Mystery of Blacktail Canyon part of Cutting Edge:Enhance Your Teaching:Teaching with Online Field Experiences:Activities
Nearly two billion years of the Earth's geological history has been exposed as the Colorado River and its tributaries cut their channels through layers of rock while the Colorado Plateau was uplifted. ...
First Burrowing Animals, Australia part of Cutting Edge:Enhance Your Teaching:Teaching with Online Field Experiences:Activities
Deep in the hills of the Flinders Ranges in South Australia scientists continue to study one of the most enigmatic stories in the history of life on Earth. This site preserves evidence of a dramatic change in the ...
Exploring the Grand Canyon: Layers and Superposition part of Cutting Edge:Enhance Your Teaching:Teaching with Online Field Experiences:Activities
Nearly two billion years of the Earth's geological history has been exposed as the Colorado River and its tributaries cut their channels through layers of rock while the Colorado Plateau was uplifted. ...
Earliest Record of Life, Australia part of Cutting Edge:Enhance Your Teaching:Teaching with Online Field Experiences:Activities
The Dresser Formation is part of the mostly volcanic Warrawoona Group in the North Pole Dome area of the East Pilbara located in the State of Western Australia. At 3.49 billion years old, this formation contains ...
Oldest Multicellular Animals: Nilpena, South Australia (unguided VFT) part of Cutting Edge:Enhance Your Teaching:Teaching with Online Field Experiences:Activities
Deep in the hills of the Flinders Ranges in South Australia, fossils of the earliest multicellular animals, called the Ediacara fauna, appear in the rock record and evolve in three distinct stages. Then suddenly, ...
Upheaval Dome, Moab USA part of Cutting Edge:Enhance Your Teaching:Teaching with Online Field Experiences:Activities
Upheaval Dome is circular depression of folded and faulted rocks located in Canyonlands National Park, Utah. It is approximately 5 km in diameter and estimated to be less than 170 million yrs old. There are two ...
Layers in Time, Australia part of Cutting Edge:Enhance Your Teaching:Teaching with Online Field Experiences:Activities
The Ediacaran Period, named after the Ediacara Hills of South Australia, is the last geological period of the Neoproterozoic Era immediately preceding the Paleozoic Era. The rocks at this very special site define ...
Ancient Earth Pichi Richi Trail, Australia part of Cutting Edge:Enhance Your Teaching:Teaching with Online Field Experiences:Activities
Deep in the hills of the Flinders Ranges in South Australia we can trace the end of an almost global glaciation through to the base of the Ediacaran Period. Explore the rocks that were deposited in an ancient ocean ...
Living Microorganisms, Shark Bay, Australia part of Cutting Edge:Enhance Your Teaching:Teaching with Online Field Experiences:Activities
3,000 years ago microbes started building up stromatolites in Shark Bay, Western Australia. These structures are the earliest signs of life on Earth, and are considered the longest continuing biological lineage. ...
Oldest Multicellular Animals: Nilpena, South Australia part of Cutting Edge:Enhance Your Teaching:Teaching with Online Field Experiences:Activities
Deep in the hills of the Flinders Ranges in South Australia, fossils of the earliest multicellular animals, called the Ediacara fauna, appear in the rock record and evolve in three distinct stages. Then suddenly, ...
First Reef-building Animals, Australia part of Cutting Edge:Enhance Your Teaching:Teaching with Online Field Experiences:Activities
Archaeocyathids were important marine organism that lived in shallow tropical and subtropical waters of the early Cambrian Period around 530 million years ago. They became the planet's very first reef-builders ...