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Geology and Landforms - 0 views

  • Due to less active volcanoes, the Earth’s crust has begun to form.   Most of the water vapor that made up almost the entire atmosphere during the Hadean Eon has condensed into a global ocean.  The lava, which covered most of the Earth during the previous Eon, has now cooled to form the ocean floor.  Other, less active, volcanoes erupt to form small chains of islands in the vast ocean.   These islands are the only land surface, considering that the continents that we know today have not formed.  Every so often, a few islands may collide and form larger islands in their places.   Since fewer asteroids hit Earth, these islands stay intact and become the cores of our modern day continents.
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    Becuase of less active volcanoes the earths crust started to form differently.
harukas

Relative and absolute ages in the histories of Earth and the Moon: The Geologic Time Sc... - 0 views

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    This website is about the differences between absolute ages and relative ages. Also, it shows the geologic time scales.
aleksandera

Geologic Changes to the Very Good Earth | The Institute for Creation Research - 0 views

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    This site explains the geological changes over time
jiminp

Proterozoic Era: Timeline & Facts | Study.com - 0 views

  • During the timeline of the era, several different events took place, eventually helping to shape the Earth as we know it today.
  • During the Proterozoic, the Earth had cooled considerably from the previous Hadean eon when the planet was covered by molten lava.
  • Near the end of the Proterozoic, ice sheets were growing towards the equator, and the entire planet was possibly engulfed under a thin layer of snow and ice.
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  • Life during the Proterozoic began to evolve from simple single cell organisms into more advanced single cell organisms
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    This article talks about the climates, evolution of life and increase in oxygen during the Proterozoic.
hyounminl

Science U2 Article - Google Docs - 0 views

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    It talks about how the earth was once a supercontinent called Pangea. 
emmab25

Cretaceous: Extinction of the Dinosaurs - 0 views

  • About 65 million years ago the second greatest mass extinction in Earth history occurred, resulting in the loss of the dinosaurs as well as nearly 50% of all the world’s species. Though not nearly as severe as the end-Permian mass extinction, the end-Cretaceous extinction is the most famous mass extinction in Earth history
  • Terrestrial plants also suffered a major extinction at this time; in some regions up to 60% of latest Cretaceous plant species were absent in the subsequent Paleocene.
  • The causes of the end-Cretaceous extinction are still being debated by paleontologists. Researchers agree that a major factor was an asteroid about 10 kilometers in diameter that struck what is now the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico. The effects of the impact were catastrophic, probably including global forest fires, possibly a period of cold weather due to sunlight-blocking dust and smoke, and a subsequent period of hot climate caused by the high levels of CO2 released into the atmosphere by the impact.
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  • Some paleontologists argue that dinosaurs were already in decline before the asteroid impact, so that its environmental effects merely hastened their extinction.
lauran1

Greenhouse Earth | Climate change | Discovering Geology | British Geological Survey (BGS) - 1 views

  • During the Late Cretaceous, the high levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide heated up the Earth in the same way as they do today.
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    This talks about the late Cretaceous climate and about what gases there were.
harukas

Palaeos Proterozoic: The Paleoproterozoic Era - 0 views

  • It was during the Paleoproterozoic that small islands of crust were first stitched together to form the stable nuclei of the continents we know today.
  • India has a similar history. Similarly, India appears to be an amalgamation of four cratons.
  • The formation of Baltica - the continent which was to become Europe -- is one of the best-known examples. Baltica formed in the Paleoproterozoic from the fusion of three cratons
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  • For example, the core of South America formed around Amazonia in the Paleoproterozoic. The geologically stable core of South America is the Amazonian craton, roughly coterminous with northern and central Brazil and the inland areas of Venezuela, both Guyanas, and Suriname.
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    This website talks about the geography in the Paleoproterozoic era. There are many useful examples about the cratons or small islands connecting into a large continent. There are also explanations about the geochemistry during that time too. 
benjaming1

Geologic Change - 0 views

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    This article compares Earth's geologic features in its early years to Earth's geologic features today. In our lessons we review how geologic changes occurred and what they were.  This article also contained information on what the changes were and how they changed. 
antoniapt

The Paleogene Period - A Transition From the Mesozoic to Cenozoic Era - 0 views

  • The beginning of the Paleogene Period was very warm and moist compared to today’s climate. Much of the earth was tropical or sub-tropical. Palm trees grew as far north as Greenland!
  • By the end of the Paleogene, during the Oligocene Epoch, the climate began to cool.
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    This website is useful because it has a lot of facts about the climate in the Paleogene. 
hyounminl

Rock Layers: Timeline of Life on Earth - Prehistoric Planet - 0 views

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  • These three layers make up a sort of 3-layer cake. Just like a cake, the bottom layer went down first, followed by the middle and the top.
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    THis talks about the earth's rocks' layers in different eras.
benjaming1

Paleozoic Era: Facts & Information - 1 views

  • The Paleozoic began with the Cambrian Period, 53 million years best known for ushering in an explosion of life on Earth
  • After the Ordovician Period came the Silurian Period (443 million years ago to 416 million years ago), which saw the spread of jawless fish throughout the seas.
  • In the Paleozoic Era, life flourished in the seas.
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  • fter the Cambrian Period came the 45-million-year Ordovician Period, which is marked in the fossil record by an abundance of marine invertebrates.
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    This is useful for learning about the life during the Paleozoic Era. 
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    Life in the Paleozoic
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