Video demonstration
of how to weigh a dinosaur in 10 easy steps:
http://faculty.northseattle.edu/tbraziun/GEL100/geo100demos.htm
Video demonstration
of how to calculate dinosaur speeds:
http://facweb.northseattle.edu/tbraziunas/geol106_screencasts/dino_speed.htm
Photographic demonstration on how to calculate dinosaur speeds:
http://faculty.northseattle.edu/tbraziun/GEL100/geo100demos.htm
Sedimentary processes
explained by Kirk Johnson & Ray Troll over breakfast:
Pancakes and Geology- Cruisin' the Fossil Freeway
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2UD2M5aQC4)
Animation of how to build a cladogram:
http://ccl.northwestern.edu/simevolution/obonu/cladograms/Open-This-File.swf
This is a great
interactive map on the break-up of the "super-continent" of Pangaea
during dinosaur time:
http://www.scotese.com/pangeanim.htm
Here are a couple other
websites for basic information:
http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dinosaurs/types.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dinosaurs/
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/dinosaurs/index.html
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/
Dinosaur heights, lengths & weights:
http://www.dinodatabase.com/dinorcds.asp
Excellent interactive resource on dinosaur
anatomy:
http://members.aol.com/ncanvas2/NCWeb/IntSkel.html
(currently this is a broken link)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Dinosaur_anatomy
A good website on dinosaur posture and
other details:
http://search.eb.com/dinosaurs/dinosaurs/PRa.html
Dinosaur illustrations:
http://www.dinosaurios.net/rama/rama_01.htm
(currently this is a broken link)
Dinosaur videoclips and motion views:
http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/dinos/video/video.html
http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/dinosaurplanet/interactive/dinoviewer.html
Pronunciation guide:
http://www.dinodictionary.com/dinos_apg2.asp
Additional websites for dinosaur
information:
http://www.omniology.com/JackalopianDinosaurs.html
http://www.oucom.ohiou.edu/dbms-witmer/dinoskulls02.htm
http://www.carnegiemnh.org/programs/dinosaurs.html
DINOSAUR
"FIELD TRIPS" TO MUSEUMS:
The University of
California Berkeley Museum of Paleontology:
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/dinosaur.html
Honolulu Community College's Dinosaur
Exhibit:
http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/dinos/
THE
SCIENTIFIC METHOD:
Websites with good
explanations:
http://biology.clc.uc.edu/courses/bio104/sci_meth.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method
http://teacher.nsrl.rochester.edu/phy_labs/AppendixE/AppendixE.html
http://forest.mtu.edu/kidscorner/face_nf.html#whatis
Websites that argue against the Scientific
Method:
http://www.dharma-haven.org/science/myth-of-scientific-method.htm
http://www.danieldrezner.com/archives/001699.html
The so-called dinosaur-human connection:
http://www.bible.ca/tracks/taylor-trail.htm
http://www.bible.ca/tracks/tracks.htm
EARTHQUAKE-RELATED:
Details and graphics on the
6.8-magnitude Nisqually Earthquake that occurred in this area on February 28, 2001:
http://peer.berkeley.edu/nisqually/geotech/
VOLCANO-RELATED:
Volcanoes (including movies of
eruptions):
http://www.geology.sdsu.edu/how_volcanoes_work/
Mt. St. Helens
eruptive activity:
http://pubs.usgs.gov/publications/msh/subsequent.html
Mt. St. Helens general information:
http://mountsthelens-awesome.com
PACIFIC NORTHWEST GEOLOGY:
Columbia River Basalts, Missoula
Floods, Cascade Range, and the Columbia Gorge:
http://www.fs.fed.us/r6/columbia/forest/geology/index.shtml
Geology of the Spokane area:
http://users.scc.spokane.edu/ABuddington/vft1/
GEOLOGY VIRTUAL FIELD
TRIPS:
A website with many good links for
the United States and Canada:
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/geo/onlineguides.html
North Cascades geologic maps:
http://wrgis.wr.usgs.gov/wgmt/pacnw/nc/index.html
