Selected Links - Our Geology Favorites
Books & Publications on Paleontology and Geology
Fossil Corals by Carl Rominger
Geological Survey of Michigan (1876)
Focuses on corals of Ordovician, Silurian and Devonian age,
primarily Michigan, Falls of the Ohio & Ontario
Fossil
News
Periodical for amateur fossil collectors
Geology of Kentucky - McFarlan's classic book
Everything about Kentucky's geology from 1943
Kentucky Fossil Corals
An 1885 book of coral photos published by the Kentucky Geological Survey
PaleoParks: The Protection and Conservation of Fossil Sites Worldwide
An on-line book that includes the Falls of the Ohio and nine other sites
Evolution and the Fossil Record
Published in 2001 by the American Geological Institute and the Paleontological Society, this short publication describes how evolution and fossils are inter-related. PDF document.
Sites with Fossils
Ashfall
Fossil Bed State Historic Site
Nebraska site loaded with ancient rhinos.
Mammoth
Site at Hot Springs, SD
Famous mammoth mass-mortality site
Fossil Connections
Brachnet:
Brachiopoda and Brachiopodologists
Network for people interested in these shelly invertebrates.
Crinoid
Education Project
No, they aren't teaching crinoids, but you can learn about them!
Focuses on the famous crinoid deposits of LeGrand, Iowa.
Fossil
Coral
An Australian web site that explores ancient corals.
Fossils in My Back Yard (Iowa)
County-by-county, this website explores the fossils found across the Hawk-eye State.
Fossils of New York
Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian and Pleistocene fossils of New York State
Geology.com's Fossil Page
Lots of news about fossils.
Kentucky
Geological Survey -Fossil Pages
Great information about fossils, identification and Kentucky
KET
Virtual Field Trip to the Falls of the Ohio
Visit the Falls - virtually
Maps of Ancient Earth
Traces the changes of continents over Earth's history
Mosasaurs,
marine reptiles and Cretaceous information
The Oceans of Kansas - Explore the Cretaceous seas of the mid-continent.
National Fossil Day - October 12, 2011
Inaugurated in 2010 and organized by the National Park Service, it is part of
National Earth Science Week.
Ordovician Fossils and Stratigraphy (Cincinnatian)
Photos of many Cincinnatian fossils found in southeast Indiana, Kentucky and southwest Ohio. Good information about the stratigraphy.
The
Paleo Portal
More about fossils than you can digest in one day!
Shark
Teeth
Identify teeth in Cenozoic strata
Trilobite
Guide
All about these extinct arthropods...
Museums with Fossils
Carnegie
Museum of Natural History Science & Research
Located in Pittsburgh.
Field
Museum of Natural History on-line exhibits (Chicago)
Indiana State Museum
Has the largest geology exhibit in the state. Exhibits feature Earth's history and the progression of life in Indiana from Cambrian to Pleistocene faunas. (Cambrian is only known from drill cores.)
Milwaukee
Public Museum's Virtual Silurian Reef
Explore a 425 million-year old Silurian ecosystem. These reefs are known from Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin.
Museum of the Earth
Formerly the Paleontological Research Institute, located in Ithaca, New York)
Royal
Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology
In the badlands of Alberta, Canada
Note: the web address changes a lot
Smithsonian
Institution: Department of Paleobiology
Largest repository of fossil collections in the world
University
of California at Berkley: Museum of Paleontology
A lot of information about fossils.
Organizations: Geology and Paleontology
Cincinnati
Dry Dredgers
Cincinnati-based, lots of information on Upper Ordovician fossils
Geological
Society of America
One of the world's largest organizations of and for geologists.
Kentucky
Paleontological Society
Based in Lexington, Kentucky
Kyana
Geological Society
Based in Louisville, Kentucky
The
Paleontological Society
World's largest organization of paleontologists
Online Collections with Fossils
Indiana State Museum Collections
Search by fossil name.
NMFossils.org
The New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science web site with images and a database of New Mexico fossils.
The Paleobiology Database
Designed to be used by paleontologists around the world. No images.
University of Kansas Invertebrate Paleontology Images and Database
Fossil photos (~1,500) and database from their extensive collections.
Yale University Invertebrate Paleontology Image Gallery
Photos of fossils of most phyla.
Geology - General
New Madrid Earthquakes
U.S. Geological Survey downloadable publication on the 1810-11 quakes.
Indiana
Geological Survey (Everything Indiana)
Kentucky Geological Society (Everything Kentucky)
Geological Time Scales and Dating Rocks
These are websites with good charts depicting geological time, some with detailed explanations or extension activities.
American Geological Institute chart
Index Fossils and Geological Time (U.S. Geological Survey)
Spongebobquh chart
Includes questions and answers relating to fossils and time.
Time scale comparing the Earth, Mars and the Moon (JPL)
University of Arkansas Monticello chart
University of Calgary chart
University of Oregon chart (shows when major events occurred)
Radiometric Dating Rocks
Explains how the ages of rocks are determined.
Minerals
Mindat
The largest, most comprehensive website in the world for minerals and mineral locality information.
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Updated January 27, 2012
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