AMMONOID SUTURES Purpose To try to explain why ammonoids developed complex sutures. In this paper exercise you will investigate how the shell strength will change with increasing crinkling of the suture. Instructions

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• Fossils
• Septum
• Ammonoidea
• Suture
• Anatomy
• Zoology
• Biology
• Goniatite

Licentiate in Palaeontology Licentiate in Palaeontology – 5 years Objective To train students in the study of past life evidence. This evidence includes fossils preserved in sedimentary rocks. Students develop the anal

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• Academic degree
• Planetary science
• Earth
• Nature
• Education in Switzerland
• Licentiate
• Paleontology

CLIMATE CHANGE INSTITUTE Program of Study Course credit hours must total at least 30 hours, which will consist of at least 24 hours of course work and at least 6 hours of thesis work. Thesis work may not exceed 15 hours.

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• Geology
• Planetary science
• Nicholas Shackleton
• Baikal Archaeology Project
• Fossils
• Palynology
• Academia

The concept of RNA-assisted protein folding: the role of tRNA

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• Extinction events
• Planetary science
• Entomology
• Oxygen
• Transitional fossils
• Devonian
• Carboniferous
• Permian–Triassic extinction event
• Permian
• Phanerozoic
• Geologic time scale
• Biology

The Age of Mt Etna By the 1820s William Smith and Georges Cuvier had established the succession of rocks and fossils. In 1828 Charles Lyell attempted to find out the age of the earth by working out the age of Mt Etna. Do

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Making a fossil sequence The purpose of this exercise is for the students to build up a sequence of zone fossils from several separate outcrops. The letters represent zone fossils. Each vertical group of letters are thos

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Stratigraphy of a rubbish tip This activity is a metaphor for a sedimentary basin filling up with sediment. Instead of sediment there is rubbish and instead of fossils there are various items which have changed over the

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THE EVOLUTION OF SCREWS AND NAILS Purpose To illustrate the ways by which an evolutionary sequence is worked out from fossils. Instructions The screws and nails represent the fossils found in a sequence of five

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• Screw
• Woodworking
• Fossil
• Evolutionary biology
• Evolution
• Stratigraphy
• Geology
• Paleontology
• Biology
• Metalworking

Building a stratigraphic column Each of the nine sections that follow show a conformity or unconformity between two stratigraphic systems. The lower only one is given its name. There are diagrams of the fossils character

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Introduction to Palaeontology Looking at a variety of fossils A I 20 min Twenty or so fossils or plaster casts are laid out, each numbered but not named. Examples should include things like coprolites, bones, teeth, inse

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• Geology
• Bioindicators
• Microbiology
• Fossil
• Coprolite
• Brachiopod
• Ichnology
• Biology
• Paleontology
• Trace fossils