Dinosaurs, extinctions, skeletons 1300-PDWS31
Themes:
Topic I Were dinosaurs cold or warm-blooded?
Topic II Extinctions: number, rates and causes.
Topic III How changes in seawater chemistry influenced skeletons of marine organisms.
Participant (a female or a male student) gives a lecture based on her or his knowledge gathered from scientific publication(s) and/or from chapter(s) of scientific books (see: Literature). Later on, the audience discusses content of a lecture.
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Assessment criteria
Acceptable absence: twice.
Bibliography
I
1 Bakker R. 1988. The dinosaur heresies.
2 Burness G.P., Diamond J. & Flannery T. 2001. Dinosaurs, dragons, and dwarfs: the evolution of maximal body size. PNAS 98, 25.
3 Farlow J. & Brett-Surman M.K. 1997. The complete dinosaur.
4 Wang S.C. & Dodson P. 2007. Estimating the diversity of dinosaurs. PNAS 103, 37.
II
1 Eble G. 1999. Originations: land and sea compared. GEOBIOS 32, 2.
2 MacLeod N. 2003. Extinctions: causes and evolutionary significance. W: Evolution on planet Earth.
3 Peters S.E. & Foote M. 2002. Determinants of extinction in the fossil record. Nature 416.
4 Raup D. M. 1991. Extinction. Bad genes or bad luck?
III
1 Lowenstein T. K i inni 2001. Oscilations in Phanerozoic seawater chemistry. SCIENCE 294.
2 Ries J.B. 2004. Effect of ambient Mg/Ca ratio on Mg fractionation in calcreous marine invertebrates. GEOLOGY 32, 11.
3 Ries J. B. i inni. 2006. Scleractinian corals produce calcite, and grow more slowly, in artifical Cretaceous seawater. GEOLOGY 34,7.
4 Stanley S.M. i inni 1999. Hypercalcification: paleontology links plate tectonics and geochemistry to sedimentology. GSA TODAY 9, 2.
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