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This website explains the history of Alfred Wegener and his theory of plate tectonics. The website talks about where his theory came from and how it was met with opposition from the scientific community until the 1960s when Harry Hess confirmed Wegener’s theory.
Describes Wegener’s theory of plate tectonics. Explains how Wegener’s theory was finally proved through Hess showing seafloor spreading.
A website with an interactive geologic time scale. Clicking on the links allows the user to go to other pages that identify the life, climates, and geography during that time period.
An explanation of the geologic time scale and how the time spans are defined and named.
This website gives a brief explanation of foraminifera. Links take the reader to the fossil record, life history, ecology, systematics, and morphology of the foraminifera.
This American Museum of Natural History describes what can be learned by studying forminifera fossils. The museum received a grant that allows them to catalog and scan the forminifera in their collection so that researchers can use the information to discover what the Earth was like in the past.