Triassic

Chapter One: The author grew up in Kenya, a place which developed his love of nature and all the flora and fauna within it and provided a chance for that love to grow. His parents were both passionate naturalists, especially his father. He was taught to love fossils because of his parents love for them. Because of being raised in the wild, he has always been drawn to it. When he was younger, he would sell bones to museums. This job helped him to prepare for his future specialty in…

Scope The purpose of this project is to summarize the Montney shale gas play that Progress Energy is operating in. We will be looking at and comparing the different wellbore designs they have, such as lengths, casing sizes, stages, frac tonnage. We will also be analyzing 8 wells in the Lily area and provide thorough information on well architecture, interval problems, number of bits/trips, and a day’s vs depth for all eight wells. We are going to analyze on the eight-well pad, located in…

Callaway wasn't the first to pursue the lost garden. Columbus went inspecting for it in Venezuela. Dr. Livingstone presumed it was in Zambia. John Calvin preached that it lay hidden in Iraq. William Warren, the president of Boston University, took a sabbatical Arctic cruise to confirm its location at the pole. The Garden has been the illusory dream of scientists, kings, writers, and at least one contrarian Southern lawyer. It is a story so compelling they’ve sometimes abandoned gold, tenure,…

Sharks don’t fossilize well because they’re from the class of chondrichthyes meaning their skeletons are made of cartilage, a flexible connective tissue. This is one of the reasons why there is a disagreement over when the first shark first existed. However, shark teeth do fossilize well and sharks produce thousands of teeth in a lifetime. The oldest shark teeth date back to the Devonian Period about 400 million years ago and were found in Europe. Shark scales also fossilize well.…

The changes vary across the Arctic; the largest decreases occur in maritime regions of the Arctic (Alaska, northern Scandinavia, and the Pacific coast region of Russia) [8]. Climate model projections indicate decreases in the duration of snow cover of 10 to 20% over most of the Arctic by 2050 and Scandinavia will experience the most loss (around 30 to 40%) [2]. 2.4 Temperature Average Arctic temperatures have increased at almost twice the global average rate in the past 100 years according to…

was dominated by dinosaurs. Dinosaurs arose from fully bipedal ancestors, who is believed to have been a carnivore or omnivore (Langer, Ezcurra, Bittencourt & Novas, 2010). These agile terrestrial archosaurs lived during the Late Permian and Early Triassic and had already developed key changes in the hips and ankles that set the stage for the increase in body size that is seen in dinosaurs (Pough, Janis & Heiser, 2013). This included an alteration in the hip that allowed the hind limbs to be…