Earthshine's Timeline of a Pale Blue Dot - Notes, References, and Sources

Earthshine's Timeline of a Pale
Blue Dot

return to Timeline

---

"Nowadays, of course, the politically correct
way to group organisms, especially prokaryotes, is on a genetic basis,
i.e., by comparison of the nucleotide sequences of the small subunit ribosomal
RNA that is contained in all cellular organisms."

©
1997 Kenneth Todar University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Bacteriology

References:

• The Talk.Origins Archive - Evolutionary and Geological Timelines

• 3. From Chemical to Biological Evolution: The Impact of Life on Earth Systems

• The PaleoMap Project

• University of California Museum of Palentology Online

• Barthel, K.W., Swinburne, N.H.M., and Conway Morris,
  S. 1994. Solnhofen: A Study in Mesozoic Palaeontology. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
  

• Britannica.com

• David H. Levy, "Comets: Creators and Destroyers"
  Touchstone Books, 1998

• Frank Press, Raymond Siever, "Earth" W.H. Freeman
  and Co., 1986

• ALVAREZ ASTEROID IMPACT THEORY - Paleontology and Geology Glossary

• Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, Oxford Press, 1953

• Robert H. Dott, Jr., Roger L. Batten, "Evolution of the Earth" Second Edition, McGraw Hill, 1976

• David Lambert, "The Dinosaur Data Book". 1991

• THE TRIASSIC PERIOD (245-208 mya) - GEOGRAPHY, CLIMATE AND TECTONICS

• THE AGE OF DINOSAURS (BIOL 1090)  at Nova Southeastern University

• Natural Resources Canada - Regional Geophysics Section

• A. Lee McAlester, "The History of Life", Second Edtion, 1977

• Miller
  Museum of Geology Online Exhibit, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario,
  Canada

• The Age of Reptiles Mural at the Yale Peabody Museum

• The Vertebrate Phylogeny Pages
  

• The Tree of Life

• Dr. Ron Blakey, Global Earth History

• BBC News, Aug 9, 2000, "Ice Age star map discovered."

• The Courtenay and District Museum, Our Ancient Island

• Monastersky, R., "Eruptions Cleared Path for Dinosaurs"
  Science News, 04/24/99, Vol. 155 Issue 17, p260

• Hominid Species - Talk Origins Archive

• The Virtual Silurian Reef, Milwaukee Public Museum

•  National Museum of Natural History, Burgess Shale

• Introduction to the Early Paleozoic  by Pamela J. W. Gore

• Global Earth History

• Extinctions: Cycles of Life and Death Through Time by Hooper Virtual Paleontological Museum
  

• Cyanosite

• Scientific American: Snowball Earth

• The Origin and Evolution of Planetary Nebulae Sun Kwok

• Opportunity Knocked: The Devonian Transformation - The Devonian Times
  

• The oldest land plants 1 & 2, Hans Steur

• HISTORY  OF PALAEOZOIC  FORESTS THE  EARLIEST LAND  PLANTS

• Global Earth History Paleo maps

• Evolution, Science, and Society Dr. Douglas J.
  Futuyma Darwin Day at UTK
  1997 Keynote Lecture

• •  

Last updated
April 20, 2001

---