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Focus on the Cretaceous
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Diatoms: Fossil Record part of SERC Web Resource Collection
The oldest definitive diatoms were discovered in lower Cretaceous strata. This site provides an introduction to these organisms with several photomicrographs and SEM photos. Several links to ...
Ophiomorpha Trace Fossils from the Cretaceous Dakota Sandstone part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This site provides a brief discussion of trace fossils, the Dakota Sandstone, the ichnofacies within this unit and the environments these strata record. Photos and illustrations of Ophiomorpha trace ...
A Field Conference on Impacts of Coalbed Methane Development in the Powder River Basin, WY part of SERC Web Resource Collection
A field trip guide and road log from Casper through midwest Wyoming is provided on this site. Brief discussions of key stratigraphic units, sedimentary basins, structures and economic resources ...
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 ...
The Mississippi Embayment, North America: A first order continental structure generated by the Cretaceous superplume mantle event part of SERC Print Resource Collection
The authors of this paper published in the Journal of Geodynamics had previously argued that the Mississippi Embayment formed as a result of the westward passage of faulted crust (Mississippi Valley ...
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work, Opinion
Late Archaean superplume events: a Kaapvaal-Pilbara perspective part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This paper, published in the journal Geodynamics, summarizes evidence for superplume events in the Kaapvaal (South Africa) and Pilbara (Australia) regions. Flood basalts and graben-related ...