Use this page to find recommended book resources for the "Fossil & Earth History" report for GEO 1020. Ask a Library staff member for assistance locating and borrowing these items. Use your OneCard (student ID) as your Library card to borrow items for four weeks.
The Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah is the location of one of the best-known terrestrial records for the late Cretaceous.
Find it: Access Online
Earth's climate has undergone dramatic changes over the geologic timescale.... Paleoclimatology is the study of such changes and their causes.
Find it: South City Library QC884 .B39 2013
Jurassic West recounts the discovery of many important Late Jurassic dinosaurs such as Apatosaurus, Allosaurus, and Stegosaurus.
Find it: Redwood Library QE733 .F68 2020
Palaeontologist Anthony Stuart explores the lives and environments of these animals, moving between five continents and several key islands that showcase their variety and evolution.
Find it: Jordan Library QE721.2.E97 S78 2021
In Fantastic Fossils, Donald R. Prothero offers an accessible, entertaining, and richly illustrated guide to the paleontologist's journey.
Find it: South City Library QE711.3 .P76 2020
Epigenetic Mechanisms of the Cambrian Explosion provides readers with a basic biological knowledge and epigenetic explanation of the biological puzzle of the Cambrian explosion, the unprecedented rapid diversification of animals that began 542 million years ago.
Find it: Redwood Library QE721.2.E85 C33 2019
Picture a world of dog-sized scorpions and millipedes as long as a car; tropical rainforests with trees towering over 150 feet into the sky and a giant polar continent five times larger than Antarctica. That world was not imaginary; it was the earth more than 300 million years ago in the Carboniferous period of the Paleozoic era.
Find it: Redwood Library RED QE721.2.E97 M388 2018
The Steven C. Minkin (Union Chapel) Paleozoic Footprint Site ranks among the most important fossil sites in the world today, and Footprints in Stone recounts the accidental revelation of its existence and detailed findings about its fossil record.
Find it: Redwood Library RED QE845 .B88 2016
In The Story of the Dinosaurs in 25 Discoveries, Donald R. Prothero tells the fascinating stories behind the most important fossil finds and the intrepid researchers who unearthed them.
Find it: Jordan Library QE705.A1 P76 2019
Dinosaurs of Darkness opens a doorway to a fascinating former world, between 100 million and 120 million years ago, when Australia was far south of its present location and joined to Antarctica. Dinosaurs lived in this polar region.
Find it: South City Library QE861.9.A82 R534 2020
The Grand Staircase region, located in Southern Utah, is highly regarded as one of the best places in the world to study the period near the end of the Age of Dinosaurs - a time called the Late Cretaceous.
Find it: Jordan Library QE747.U8 W47 2016
With this definitive guide, professional and amateur enthusiasts alike will discover valuable information about fossils: where they have been found, how to care for samples, and what can be learned by studying them.
Find it: Redwood Library QE711.3 .V53 2020
