Mantle Plumes and Mountain Building part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This page presents an abstract from the American Scientist March-April 1999 issue. It discusses how the westward progress of the North American plate over the relatively stationary Yellowstone plume ...

Tour of Park Geology: Mountain Building part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This site provides links to tours of National Parks, National Monuments, and Recreation Areas associated with major mountain building periods. The parks are divided into groups by mountain building ...

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 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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

North American Orogenies part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This web-site contains files showing simple cross sections of one or more states in selected North American orogenies (mountain building events). Major structures, elements, and rock units are shown. ...

The Asteroid Impact vs. Volcano Greenhouse Dinosaur Extinction Debate part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This paper discusses two theories of dinosaur extinction, and how Professor McLean's research led to one conclusion. The paper is available in a student version, as well as a science-political ...

Tracking the Course of Evolution: Extinction part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This essay on mass extinction events (Ordovician, Devonian, Permian, Triassic, Cretaceous) in the geologic record is a chapter from History of Life, a book written by Richard Cowen, in which he ...

Extinction part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This site discusses and defines a number of extinction concepts and provides a survey of some important extinction and extinction-like events, primarily from the Phanerozoic. There is information ...