Geology Fieldnotes: Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, Alaska part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This park is home to the Fairweather Mountains, which formed during the Laramide Orogeny, as well as many glaciers. The site includes introductory information about glacial formation and icebergs, ...

Paleomap Project part of SERC Web Resource Collection

The goal of the PALEOMAP Project is to illustrate the plate tectonic development of the ocean basins and continents, as well as the changing distribution of land and sea during the past 1100 million ...

Plate Tectonic Animations part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This site contains a variety of plate tectonic animations, paleogeographic reconstructions, and paleoclimate animations. Each animation is viewable from the web page, and has accompanying text that ...

The PLATES Project part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This is the web page for PLATES, a program of research into plate tectonic and geologic reconstructions at the University of Texas at Austin Institute for Geophysics. The page contains links to a ...

The Tyrant Lizards: The Tyrannosauridae part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This site describes a group of huge carnivores that must have tyrannically ruled the land during the Cretaceous period. They are known as Tyrannosauridae. Members of this group are listed, including ...

The Troodontidae: Smartest of the Non-Avian Dinosaurs? part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This site describes the Troodontidae, a small group (maybe five different species) of very rare and hence poorly known maniraptorans. They are only known from a few incomplete specimens from the ...

Walking With Dinosaurs part of SERC Web Resource Collection

Part of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) learning series, this website contains dinosaur information, games, interviews with scientists, and virtual tours. The Chronology section discusses ...

Bacteria: Fossil Record part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This description of the fossil record of bacteria focuses on one particular group of bacteria, the cyanobacteria or blue-green algae, which have left a fossil record that extends far back into the ...

Geology Fieldnotes: Mojave National Preserve, California part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This Mojave National Preserve site contains park geology information, park maps, photographs, and visitor information. The park geology section discusses the Preserve's Soda Lake, Mitchell ...

The Formation of Pangaea: The Making of a Supercontinent part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This site explains the events during the Paleozoic era that led up to the formation of the Pangaea supercontinent in the Mesozoic era. The existence in the Paleozoic era of the supercontinent ...