Description:
The University of California at Berkeley Museum of Paleontology offers the easily navigable "Geological Time Machine" with links to sections on stratigraphy with information about deposition, nomenclature, and strata identification; to ancient life with an overview of major biological events; to fossil localities; to plate tectonics covering continental migrations, changes in global circulation, and climate change; and to the museum's Type Specimen Catalogs.

Organization:
University of California

URL:
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/help/timeform.html

Contact:
Brian Speer vespirus@socrates.berkeley.edu, Museum of Paleontology, Valley Life Sciences Building, Berkeley, CA 94720

Cost:
Free

Education Level:
General

Subject:
Climate
Geology
Global Environmental Change
Paleontology
Plate Tectonics

Resource Type:
Internet Site
Data Products

Date Added to teachearth.com:
1/7/01