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Paleontology, Ancient Reefs

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		Ancient Coral Reefs ^Votes:0 Ancient Coral Reefs Corals appeared about 475 million years ago as a result of the association of jellyfish-like animals and single-celled plants within the same compound organism. Thirty million years later, reef-like structures dominated by coralline skeletons were widespread, and have been particularly well studied on Manitoulin Island, Ontario. Here, several kilometres from an ancient shoreline, many kinds of corals grew in warm water about a metre below the level of low tide. Overturned and broken coral colonies indicate the repeated passage of storms. The equator then passed through Canada in a north-south direction, and Ontario was in the tropics. However, slowly retreating seas reflect the large volumes of water that were being stored in African ice sheets. Home Discover Nature! Na Read More Go to Site


		MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM ^Votes:0 MPM Continue if you are not automatically redirected . Please use the navigation at left. ©Milwaukee Public Museum. 800 West Wells Street, Milwaukee, WI 53233. Privacy Policy . Usage Policy Read More Go to Site

		Reefs And Atolls Of The Australian Outback ^Votes:0 Science News Share Blog Cite Print Email Bookmark Reefs And Atolls Of The Australian Outback ScienceDaily (Jul. 31, 2000) When the Australian explorer Charles Sturt went looking for an inland sea, he wasn’t wrong; just a few million years too late. Oceans once covered great areas of what is now inland Australia. Their traces remain in fossils, minerals and geological formations that reveal much about how Earth has changed over time. See also: Plants & Animals Marine Biology Fish Earth & Climate Coral Reefs Global Warming Fossils & Ruins Fossils Origin of Life Reference Trace fossil Sedimentary rock Fossil Precambrian Dr Nicholas Lemon from Adelaide University’s National Centre for Petroleum Geology and Geophysics has been field-mapping a Precambrian reef complex in what Read More Go to Site

		Roth, A. A. --- Fossil Reefs and Time ^Votes:0 FOSSIL REEFS AND TIME Ariel A. Roth Geoscience Research Institute Origins 22(2):86-104 (1995). WHAT THIS ARTICLE IS ABOUT Ancient fossil reefs found within Earth's sedimentary rocks are considered to be a challenge to the biblical concept of creation. Their presence is regarded as favoring models which propose that life developed gradually over many millions of years. The problem for the biblical model is that an abundance of time is required to grow a reef and the hundreds of fossil reefs found would require so much time to develop that they cannot be accommodated into the biblical time framework of a recent creation a few thousand years ago. Do these fossil reefs really negate the biblical account of beginnings? There are alternative interpretations that do not require long ages. For ins Read More Go to Site

		Stromatolites, Stromatolite, Petrified Sea Gardens, Fossil, Saratoga Springs ^Votes:0 Main About Us A Tour Directions History Old Photos Newsletter Hours/Rates Contact Us Membership Media/Press Links WebRings Calendar Mailing List Site Map Visitors since September 1999 National Natural Landmark and National Historic Landmark Saratoga Springs, New York A Small Section of Fossil Stromatolites larger (58 KB) photo Due to severe wind storm damage, Petrified Sea Gardens is no longer open for business The Petrified Sea Gardens is a fossilized Stromatolite (cyanobacteria) ocean-reef 500 million-years-old, a time when the land that is now Saratoga Springs was at the shore of a warm tropical sea. The trail also passes a series of glacial "standing stones," gardens, rock gardens, a labyrinth and more. There is a rock, fossil, and mineral display (including dinosaur tracks f Read More Go to Site

		The White-Inyo Mountains ^Votes:0 Localities of the Cambrian: The White-Inyo Mountains Along the California-Nevada border north of Death Valley, the White Mountains, the Inyo Mountains, and associated ranges present one of the most important and best-known Late Proterozoic to Cambrian sections in the United States. Starting with the unfossiliferous Precambrian rocks of the Wyman Formation, paleontologists can work their way through a complete section that documents the appearance of various animals and protists, starting about 540 million years ago. Precambrian, Cambrian, and later Paleozoic rocks are also exposed to the south of the White-Inyo region, in Death Valley and in various ranges of the Mojave Desert. We bring you the intrepid undergraduate students of Dr. Jere Lipps, climbing up "Rowland's Reef," located in the Read More Go to Site

		www.palaeo.de - Palaeontology, Geobiology, Biodiversity, Evolution of the Earth ^Votes:0 www.palaeo.de - Palaeontology, Geobiology, Biodiversity, Evolution of the Earth http://palaeo.de/ Read More Go to Site

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