Triassic

My best advice for preparing for winter is to plan a trip to escape some of it! I will share one of my favorite places on the planet with you. Georgia O’Keefe’s Ghost Ranch at Abiquiu, New Mexico. I have been there twice. So far. You won’t really be escaping winter there, but the winter you find is likely to be much easier than the one you’ll leave behind. The small town of Abiquiu is located in the mountainous region of northern NM and lies at an elevation of 6378 feet. Scientists…

Instead, it was kept on exhibit at Mount Holyoke’s museum in Williston Hall where Mignon spent several years curating the collection of minerals, invertebrate fossils and Triassic footprints. Now, the jewel of that collection was her own Podokesaurus. Then, over Christmas vacation in 1916, Williston Hall burned to the ground, destroying every specimen in its holdings. Until her retirement from Mount Holyoke in 1935, Mignon…

Thermal conductivity changes are most likely due to significant changes in lithology such as sand (~1.7 – 4.0 W/m/K) to clay (~1.0 – 1.5 W/m/K) or limestone (~1 – 3 W/m/K) (Robertson, 1988). Since these wells were drilled primarily through Triassic sediments, containing mudstone, shale, and sandstone intervals, changes in the thermal conductivity of the strata could explain the behavior of the temperature profile. The only lithologic log that has been run closest to these well bores is the…

Sixth Extinction won the Pulitzer Prize in 2015; I chose this nonfiction book because I hadn’t heard of the concept of a sixth extinction. I had previously learned of multiple extinctions that occurred in the Cretaceous, Ordovician, Permian, and Triassic-Jurassic periods, but I became curious just by the thought of what Kolbert meant by a sixth extinction. She claims that this extinction could be the most devastating yet due to humans, and gives different descriptions of species that have gone…

DARSHAN GANGANNA RAVINDRA Abstract— About Sixty-five million years ago, one of last non-avian reptile species called dinosaurs vanished from the earth. The extinction of this huge animal is a never-ending topic of interest, the mass extension of dinosaurs occurred over a very short geological period. Keywords— Non-Avian Dinosaurs, Mass extinction, Dinosaurs extinction theories; Asteroid impact; Volcanism; I. INTRODUCTION Dinosaurs are the certain group of reptiles which influenced and ruled…

One of the most defining features of mammals is the ability to give nutrition to young via a lactation system instead of egg-yolk that is observed in other lineages. Lactation evolved during the Triassic period—specifically the Cynodant lineage—along with other Mammalian characteristics such as fur. Certain milk proteins, and quite many other parts of the lactation system, have been conserved through evolution and time. It is hypothesized that lactation arose amongst mammals that showed maternal…

Karan Verma Mr. Nestor SES-4UO-A 10/28/2015 Geoscientist Biography Assignment Profile Richard Lee Armstrong 1937-1991 Lifespan and Background information: Richard was born August 4th 1937 in Seattle, Washington. He was a North American scientist best known for his work in the fields of radiogenic isotope geochemistry, geochronology and geochemical evolution of earth. He published over 170 scientific papers. He became a Canadian citizen and not long after he died of liver cancer on August 9th…

Permian-Triassic extinction which took place 251 million years ago and which was the worst mass extinction of the Earth. Scientists argue that 95% of all species, containing 84% of marine genera, 53% of marine families, and around 70% of land species as plants and animals disappeared during this biological crisis. Direct evidence for this period has not been found but many scientists believe a comet or asteroid impact led to this extinction. The fourth biological crisis was the end Triassic…

In four-hundred and sixty million years ago in the Ordovician era the plates are moving again and a new continent is formed called godiwalla. There should be plants and animals now because of the oxygen level, but there is only one reason why there isn’t any life on land yet, the sun. The sun is blasting the earth with deadly radiation, life on earth would not survive at all. With thirty miles from the earth 's surface the oxygen meets the sun 's radiation it forms another gas called the ozone.…

Imagine hiking up the beautiful Bear Lodge Mountains of northeastern Wyoming, surrounded by the Belle Fourche River, and seeing a grand structure of rock, a thousand feet up in the air. Nearly half a mile high, Devil’s Tower stands tall and proud, able to be seen from miles away. Devil’s Tower is known for its exciting climbing aspects, however, there is so much more than meets the eye when it comes to this particular climbing range. Devil’s Tower National Monument in Wyoming possesses a thought…