Rock Review

Here's some links to information on rocks, igneous, sedimentary and Metamorphic, as well as the rock cycle:

• Science Trek: Rock Groups
• USGS: Identifying Rocks (Rocks 101) - Rocks & Minerals
  Igneous - Sedimentary - Metamorphic
• British Isles Geology Toolkit
• Learner.org: What to look for to identify rock (scroll down to the bottom of the page)
  Helpful Rock Cycle Animation
  Virtual Rock Collection

Identifying Fossils: on-line help

Some links to help you identify the fossils we examined in class:

• Trilobite "mugshots"

• Guide to Green River Fish

• The Museum of Natural History: fossil identification

• The fossil Museum

• Descriptions and images of many, many fossils

• Ammonite identification
• Brachiopod identification & anatomy
• trilobite identification & anatomy
• Orthoceras identification

Video: Dinosaur bone is Porous!

• University of Kansas fossil Identification

• A fossil ID lab with helpful pictures and description

• Fossil Field Kit

Walking with Dinosaurs

Resources for the dinosaur research portion of your paleontological journal project:

• Dinosaurfact.net
  
  
• Smithsonian's Dinosaurs at the National Museum of Natural History

• Dino images at kidsdinos.com

• Discovery Channel's Dinosaur Central

• Dinosauria on-line

• Images of the Dinosaurs of North America

• UK Dinosaurs

• Dinodata: Dinos A-Z

• UCMP Dinosauria

The original Jurassic Park

Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, wrote "The Lost World" in 1912. It was made into a silent film in 1925, with state of the art animations from special effects creator Willis O'Brien, who 8 years later would bring King Kong to life.

You can Read Arthur Conan Doyle's original The Lost World for free at Ye Olde Library. You can also watch the trailer for the 1925 silent version on youtube.

The first on film was Gertie the Dinosaur, in 1914

You can see a video montage of dinosaur movies on youTube, including the Valley of the Gwangi (Cowboys vs. Dinosaurs).

and rumor has it that there's another sequel being made in the Jurassic Park series.

The original "teaser" trailer for Jurassic park reveals how dinosaurs could (at least in Hollywood), be brought back to life.

Mary Schweitzer, a paleontologist at North Carolina State University, found that even after 68 million years, it is possible that blood and tissue of some dinosaurs had actually been preserved through time, something previously thought impossible...

Coprolite Rocks, Geological Time & Fossils

Some resources for your homework assignments and the upcoming Fossils/Geological history project:

Coprolites & what the minerals inside it mean

Oldest known rocks on Earth (NASA)

Guide to shark tooth identification

==> USGS Guide to Geologic Time

Geologic Time illustrated

Index Fossils

Fossil Identification from University of Kansas

Fossil Identification And Classification

Fossils: Windows to the Past

General Fossil information, lots of links to more info