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Paleogeographic atlas / by Scotese, Christopher R.(CARDINAL)319012; PALEOMAP Project.(CARDINAL)319011;
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 16-20).
Subjects: Atlases.; Maps.; Paleogeography;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Sea-level changes : an integrated approach / by Wilgus, Cheryl K.(CARDINAL)331390;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Conference papers and proceedings.; Paleogeography; Sea level;
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The ice age : a very short introduction / by Woodward, Jamie C.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 146-150) and index.1. The quarternary ice age -- 2. Erratic boulders and the diluvium -- 3. Monster glaciers -- 4. Die Eiszeit -- 5. 1840 -- 6. Ice sheets or icebergs? -- 7. Glacials, interglacials, and celestial cycles -- 8. Deep ocean sediments and dating the past -- 9. Ice cores, abrupt climate shifts, and ecosystem change."In an era of warming climate, the study of the ice age past is now more important than ever. This book examines the wonders of the Quaternary ice age - to show how ice age landscapes and ecosystems were repeatedly and rapidly transformed as plants, animals, and humans reorganized their worlds." --Publisher.
Subjects: Glacial epoch.; Paleogeography; Glaciers.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The last lost world : ice ages, human origins, and the invention of the Pleistocene / by Pyne, Lydia.(CARDINAL)398631; Pyne, Stephen J.,1949-(CARDINAL)151381;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-288) and index.Prologue. Mosel Bay, South Africa -- pt. 1. How the Pleistocene got it's ice. Rift ; Ice ; Story -- pt. 2. The great game. Footnotes to Plato ; Out of Africa ; Missing links ; New truths, heresies, superstitions ; The ancients and the moderns -- pt. 3.How the Pleistocene lost it's tale. The hominin who would be king ; The Anthropcene ; Epilogue : Rift redux.A discussion of the Pleistocene era's dual character as a geologic time and a cultural idea explains the global changes of the era while describing how ideas about the Pleistocene have shaped intellectual culture, science, and modern beliefs about human origins.
Subjects: Geology, Stratigraphic; Paleogeography;
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An odyssey in time : the dinosaurs of North America / by Russell, Dale A.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-232) and index.Before the Mesozoic -- The Triassic -- The Jurassic -- A late Jurassic plain -- The early Cretaceous -- Cretaceous seas -- The late Cretaceous -- The 'Modern' Cretaceous -- The extinction of the Dinosaurs -- The meaning of the Dinosaurs.
Subjects: Dinosaurs; Paleogeography;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 4
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Evolution : what the fossils say and why it matters / by Prothero, Donald R.(CARDINAL)323088; Buell, Carl Dennis,illustrator.(CARDINAL)325217;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-411) and index.Evolution and the fossil record -- The nature of science -- Science and creationism -- The fossil record -- The evolution of evolution -- Systematics and evolution -- Evolution?, the fossils say yes! -- Life's origins -- Cambrian "explosion," or slow fuse? -- Spineless wonders of evolution -- Fish tales -- Fish out of water -- Onto the land and back to the sea : the amniotes -- Dinosaurs evolve, and fly -- Mammalian explosion -- Bossies and blowholes -- The ape's reflection? -- Why does it matter?
Subjects: Evolutionary paleobiology.; Evolution (Biology); Paleogeography.;
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Evolution : what the fossils say and why it matters / by Prothero, Donald R.(CARDINAL)323088; Buell, Carl Dennis.(CARDINAL)325217;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-371) and index.Foreword : why people do not accept evolution -- To the reader : is evolution a threat to your religious beliefs? -- Prologue : fossils and evolution -- Acknowledgments -- pt. I. Evolution and the fossil record -- 1. The nature of science -- What is science? -- Science and belief systems -- Belly buttons and testability -- Natural and supernatural -- Science, pseudoscience, and baloney detection -- Follow the evidence wherever it may lead -- 2. Science and creationism -- Mything links -- The genesis of genesis -- What is creationism? -- Twentieth-century creationism -- "Intelligent design", or "breathtaking inanity"? -- The monkey business of creationism -- 3. The fossil record -- Lucky accidents of fossilization -- Faunal succession or "flood geology"? -- The surreal world of "flood geology" -- The Grand Canyon through the looking glass -- Shop of foolishness? -- Dates with rocks -- Punk eek, transitional forms, and quote-miners -- 4. The evolution of evolution -- Before Darwin -- The evolution of Darwin -- The Neo-Darwinian evolutionary synthesis -- Challenges to Neo-Darwinism -- Unfinished synthesis -- Lamarck revisited -- Neutralism, junk DNA, and molecular clocks -- Macroevolution and evo/devo -- The evidence of evolution -- The family tree of life -- Homology -- Vestigial structure and other imperfections -- Embryology -- Biogeography -- Evolution happens all the time! -- 5. Systematics and evolution -- What is systematics? -- What is taxonomy? -- Ladders, bushes, mosaics and "missing links" -- The cladistic revolution -- Ancestor worship -- The molecular third dimension -- The branching tree of life.pt. II. Evolution? : the fossils say YES! -- 6. Life's origins -- To the blazing hot North Pole -- Recipe for primordial soup -- Mosh pits, fool's gold, kitty litter, black smokers, and mud -- Communal living builds complex cells -- Probability and the origin of life -- 7. Cambrian "explosion", or slow fuse? -- The creationists' favorite myth -- Step 1 : planet of the scum -- Step 2 : the garden of Ediacara -- Step 3 : the little shellies -- Step 4 : in with a whimper, not a bang -- 8. Spineless wonders of evolution -- Invertebrate transitions -- The incredible world of microfossils -- The story in the seashells -- What about macroevolution? -- 9. Fish tales -- Show some backbone! -- It's a long way from amphioxus -- Jaws : the evolutionary story -- 10. Fish out of water -- The great leap upward -- Lobe fins lead the way -- Four on the floor -- 11. Onto the land and back to the sea : the amniotes -- Innovative eggs -- Evolution of the great sea dragons -- Snakes with legs and hopping crocodiles -- 12. Dinosaurs evolve, and fly -- Dinosaur transitions -- Lifestyles of the huge and ancient -- Dinosaurs are alive! -- 13. Mammalian explosion -- From amniote to synapsid to mammals -- Furballs in the age of dinosaurs -- Radiation in the aftermath -- Lions and tigers and bears, oh my! -- 14. Bossies and blowholes -- Thundering hooves -- Tiny horses, hornless rhinoceroses, and thunder beasts -- Kingdom of cloven hooves -- Walking whales -- Dumbo and the mermaid -- 15. The ape's reflection? -- The only transition that really matters -- The truth about human fossils -- The third chimpanzee -- 16. Why does it matter? -- Deceit in the name of the Lord -- Why should we care? -- Choices for the future."Over the past twenty years, paleontologists have made tremendous fossil discoveries, including fossils that mark the growth of whales, manatees, and seals from land mammals and the origins of elephants, horses, and rhinos. Today there exists an amazing diversity of fossil humans, suggesting we walked upright long before we acquired large brains, and new evidence from molecules that enable scientists to decipher the tree of life as never before. The fossil record is now one of the strongest lines of evidence for evolution, and yet it continues to come under attack by present-day creationists and advocates of Intelligent Design for not supporting the theory of biological evolution. With this engaging and richly illustrated book, leading paleontologist Donald R. Prothero sets the record straight." "Prothero weaves an entertaining though intellectually rigorous history out of the transitional forms and series that dot the fossil record. Beginning with a brief discussion of the nature of science and the "monkey business of creation-ism," Prothero tackles subjects ranging from flood geology and rock dating to neo-Darwinism and macroevolution. He covers the ingredients of the primordial soup, the effects of communal living, invertebrate transitions, the development of the backbone, the reign of the dinosaurs, the mammalian explosion, and the leap from early primates to Homo sapiens, Prothero pays particular attention to the recent discovery of "missing links" that complete the fossil timeline and the controversy among contemporary scientists over the mechanisms of evolution."--Jacket.
Subjects: Evolutionary paleobiology.; Evolution (Biology); Paleogeography.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Gigantosaurus. [videorecording] by Mitchell, Nahanni,voice actor.; Schombing, Dylan,voice actor.; Sunderland, Áine,voice actor.; NCircle Entertainment,publisher.(CARDINAL)347555;
26 Dino-mite Episodes: The shortest day -- The best crest -- The big mean green -- Patchy sees the light -- Bill's night feast -- Forward marsh -- Racing Giganto -- The drought -- The challenge -- Giganto's boss -- Follow the leader -- Bill's broken promise -- Crying wolfasaurus -- A Tiny favor -- The floating stone -- How Giganto got his roar -- An artist is born -- Born tree -- The five friends -- A Giganto power -- The light in the storm -- Coco Bill -- Brothers and sisters -- Mazu's comet -- Goodbye Giganto! : part 1 -- Goodbye Giganto! : part 2.Dylan Schombing, Áine Sunderland, Nahanni Mitchell.Rocky, Bill, Tiny, and Mazu are four young dinosaurs growing up in the Cretaceous period. Life is always an adventure: new volcanoes are popping up all the time, long-necked brachiosauruses and enormous triceratopses roam free, meteor showers light up the night sky and, the big bad Gigantosaurus reigns over it all!DVD, NTSC, region 1; stereo.
Subjects: Animated television programs.; Children's television programs.; Fiction television programs.; Television series.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Dinosaurs; Friendship; Paleogeography;
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The cretaceous formations of North Carolina : Part I, Invertebrate fossils ... with a supplemental chapter on the Decapod crustaceans ... by Mary J. Rathbun. / by Stephenson, Lloyd William,1876-1962.(CARDINAL)199417; Rathbun, Mary J.;
Subjects: Geology, Stratigraphic; Geology, Structural; Paleogeography;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Plate tracker [electronic resource] / by Eldridge, J.(CARDINAL)326868; Scotese, Christopher R.(CARDINAL)319012; Walsh, David B.(CARDINAL)326867; PALEOMAP Project.(CARDINAL)319011;
System requirements: PC with Windows; CD-ROM drive.
Subjects: Maps; Continental drift; Paleogeography; Plate tectonics;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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