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Decks in this class (20)

Lecture 1: Life, the universe and everything
When did the precambrian start,
Ga,
Ma
23  cards
Lecture 2: Out of the primordial soup...
When was the archean,
What are archean shields cartoons,
What happened 4 ga
15  cards
Lecture 3: The Great Oxidation Event
What do we start to see as the pr...,
When did banded iron formations b...,
How did banded iron formations bi...
38  cards
Lecture 4: Out of the Snowball
What was the late proterozoic,
What was the proterozoic supercon...,
What happened beneath the ice
12  cards
Lecture 5: The Cambrian Explosion
The ediacaran saw the arrival of,
As we move into the precambrian 5...,
Why did mineralisation occur orig...
16  cards
Lecture 6: Life beneath the Palaeozoic ocean wave
As weve moved into the proterozoic,
Pelagic organisms live in the wat...,
Benthic or benthonic organisms th...
32  cards
Lecture 7: Dreaming of Avalon: the assembly of Britain
The british isles a big jigsaw,
Southern uplands scotland why is ...,
Ireland jigsaw
33  cards
Lecture 8: Invasion! The greening of the Earth
What was the land like in the cam...,
The greening of the earth,
Aquatic ancestors
23  cards
Lecture 9: Crisis after crisis: mid-Palaeozoic extinctions.
The early palaeozoic world atmosp...,
Why was there sluggish circulatio...,
Cambrian explosion saw the appear...
28  cards
Lecture 10: Invasion! 2: creeping, crawling onto land
First tiny steps on land,
The first vertebrates to crawled ...,
But why colonize land
26  cards
Lecture 11: The Carboniferous Massive: the great coal swamps.
Devonian saw,
Archaeopteris,
When did woody trees die out
28  cards
Lecture 12: Pangaea: building a supercontinent.
Where we left it,
In carboniferous gondwana collide...,
Continents fully assembled by
30  cards
Lecture 13: The Great Dying
How long is the boundary between ...,
As we leave the permain species d...,
Fossil record in triassic compare...
26  cards
Lecture 14: Wrenched asunder: a supercontinent splits, an ocean forms
The setting,
A triassic global fauna,
The weather in the triassic will be
20  cards
Lecture 15: Jurassic World 2
Was there a slow recovery from th...,
How did the corals in the late tr...,
Some groups that were epifaunal
13  cards
Lecture 16: Dinosaurs: tiddlers and titans
Dinosaur eggs,
Why so small eggs,
How did they lay their eggs
17  cards
Overview of Era's
600 ma,
540 ma,
470 ma
22  cards
Lecture 17: Marine Monsters
What was the top predator in the ...,
What was the dunkleosteus,
What was the biggest fish in the ...
23  cards
Lecture 18: Biogenic build-ups: the reefs they are a-changin'...
When was phanerozoic time,
What is a reef,
What is the framework of a reef
22  cards
Lecture 19: Coccoliths run riot
When did the cretaceous start,
When did the cretaceous end,
What was happening in the early c...
16  cards

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