A Palaeontological Database of Rudist Bivalves part of SERC Web Resource Collection

Rudist bivalves are a morphologically unique group of marine clams that lived from the Jurassic through the Cretaceous Period. This site supplies a brief introduction to the evolution, morphology and ...

Paleontological Sonification: Letting Music Bring Fossils to Your Ears part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This paper from the Journal of Geoscience Education discusses sonification, the process of translating any type of data into sound. In paleontology, it is possible to render various aspects of fossil ...

The Great Dinosaur Extinction Controversy part of SERC Print Resource Collection
The authors strongly oppose the impact theory of the death of the dinosaurs. They attack it both scientifically and sociologically and present evidence from a variety of fields to support the ...

Phenomena of pulsation tectonics related to the breakup of the eastern North American continental margin part of SERC Print Resource Collection
In this paper published in the journal Tectonophysics, Robert Sheridan proposes a theory of "pulsation tectonics" involving the cyclic eruption of plumes of hot mantle from the ...

Mass Extinction Debates: How Science Works in a Crisis part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This is a history of science project documenting a controversy as it unfolds. The controversy in question is whether the K/T extinction was caused by catastrophic volcanism or an asteroid impact. ...

On Methuselah's Trail: Living Fossils and the Great Extinctions part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This book reviews modern survivors of lineages greatly reduced by mass extinctions and discusses why those lineages got hit so much harder than others. Examples include the chambered nautilus, ...

Evolutionary Catastrophes: The Science of Mass Extinction part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This book uses the catastrophic-volcanism hypothesis to explain the K/T mass extinction, as opposed to the impact hypothesis. The author considers a mechanism for periodic catastrophic volcanism as ...

The Dinosaur Heresies: New Theories Unlocking the Mystery of the Dinosaurs and Their Extinction part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This book summarizes several different lines of evidence that indicate that dinosaurs were warm-blooded and not at all lizard-like. Several well-written and clearly illustrated chapters explain ...

Preface part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This is the preface to a special issue of the Journal of Geodynamics, containing seven papers presented at the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting in 2000. The papers were part of a theme ...

Mantle Plumes and Their Record in Earth History part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This book provides a timely and comprehensive review of the origin and history of mantle plumes throughout geologic time. The text describes the new and exciting results of the last few years, and ...