Cratons and mobile belts of the world

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Cratons and mobile belts of the world
The Solar System
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Nebula in Serpens Constellation
Neo-Laplace Hypothesis
Iron Catastrophe
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Granite/gneiss complex
Heat decay curve
Archean Pilbara shield, Australia
Greenstone belt
Iceland model for felsic crust
Greenstone belt origin models
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Wopmay Orogeny
NA geologic provinces
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NA cratonic features
Varangian carbon Isotope record
Proterozoic supercontinents
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Oldest cells Cyanobacteria Warrawoona Group,
(3.5 ba)
Black Smokers and origin of life
Miller/Urey experiment
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First eukaryote, 2.1 ba Multicellular, Grypania,
Michigan
BIF, Michigan
Proterozoic eubacteria (above), a acritarch
(below)
Proposed origin of eukaryotes
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Carbon isotopes and biotic events
1.3 ba Greyson Shale, Belt Supergroup
Ediocara fauna, Australia
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Late Cambrian paleogeography
Sedimentation in M. Cambrian Laurentia
Sloss Sequences
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Ordovician paleogeography
C and O isotope record, Ordovician
Sloss Sequences
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Taconic exotic terranes
NA, latest Ordovician
Taconic collision
Appalachian Basin
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First skeletons L. Cambrian, Siberia
Tommotian mollusk
Archaeocyathid reef
Tommotian unknowns
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M. CAMBRIAN BURGESS SHALE FAUNA
Anomalocaris, Arthropod? (2m)
Unknown echinoderms
Trilobite-like arthropod
Polychaete worm
Onycophoran
Pikaia, chordate
Opabina, arthropod?
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Orovician benthonic community
Ichnofabraics
Diversity Vs time
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Fossil (above) and evolution (left) of a
Devonian reef
Phylogeny of first aminoids Hunsruck
Shale, Germany
Eurypterid
Devonian benthonic community
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Fish evolution
Devonian ostracoderms
Evolution of the jaw
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Devonian placoderm (Dunkleosteus, 7m) chases
shark (Cladoselache, 2m)
Devonian Acanthodian (Climatius, 7.5cm)
Devonian Ray-finned fish (Cheirolepis, 55cm)
Modern lobe-finned fish Coelacanth
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Plant evolution
E. Devonian plantscape
E.D. vascular plant, Rhynia
E. Devonian tree (Archaeopteris, 30m)
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Lobe-finned fish and amphibian compaired
Modern lobe-finned fish Coelacanth
Primitive amphibian Ichthyostega
on Eospermatopteris trunk by lobe- finned fish
Eusthenopteron (left) and lungfish Rhynchodipteru
s (right)
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Carbon trends
Mid. Paleozoic paleogeography
Mass extinctions

Silurian Michigan and Ohio basins
Sloss sequences
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Devonian Euramerica
Avalon terrane
Devonian Appalachian Basin
Antler Orogeny
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Carboniferous paleogeography
Sloss sequences
Permian paleogeography
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Appalachian Mountains
Ancestral Rockies
Appalachian Basin
Flatirons in Boulder, Co
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Cyclothem model
Penn. cyclothems
U.S. Penn. coal basins
CO2 trends
Permian Basin
Delaware Basin fill
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Productoids
Fusulinid
Mississippian mud mound
Plant evolution
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Late Permian Therapsids
Early Permian water hole
Permian boundary
Permian C ratios