Changing Paleoclimates and Mass Extinctions part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This article provides a model for climatic change and relates climatic cycles with major extinction events in the history of the Earth. It discusses the mechanisms behind modern climate zones ...

The Cretaceous Period part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This resource discusses notable facts about the Cretaceous Period, the last portion of the "Age of Dinosaurs". The site covers Ceratopsians, such as the Tricerotops. It includes sections on ...

The Cretaceous Period part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This resource discusses notable facts about the Cretaceous Period, the last portion of the "Age of Dinosaurs". The site covers Ceratopsians, such as the Tricerotops. It includes sections on ...

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 Mid-Cretaceous Super Plume, Carbon Dioxide, and Global Warming part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This paper, published in Geophysical Research Letters, evaluates the hypothesis that CO2 releases associated with a mid-Cretaceous superplume were the principal cause of the mid-Cretaceous global ...

Tropical Paradise at the Cretaceous Poles? part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This site is an extended version of a Science article that describes the climates of polar regions in the Cretaceous. Figures, photographs, references and a complete list of notes including numerous ...

The Cretaceous World part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This textbook explores the interactions between the physical, chemical and biological processes occurring both within the Earth and at its surface during the Cretaceous Period. The book highlights ...

Paleomap Project Climate History part of SERC Web Resource Collection

The goal of the Climate History segment of the Paleomap Project is to illustrate climate change during the past 1100 million years. An array of colorful paleoclimatic maps for important time periods ...