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Back to the Present, and the Future

Friday, April 26th, 13:25 - 02:15 PM, GY 447

The pattern of glacial-interglacial cycles; Oxygen isotope proxies for climate; Regional differences in paleoenvironmental change; Late Quaternary extinction and the role of humans; Current changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide and global temperature; Comparison with past; Certainties and uncertainties from a geological and paleontological perspective.

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Indiana Fossils

Strophomena concordensis

The brachiopod Strophomena concordensis from the Ordovician of Indiana.

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Technical terms

Brachiopoda

a phylum of shelled marine animals whose valves have a left-right symmetry, but whose top (dorsal) and bottom (pedical) valves are not symmetrical. Brachiopods are lophophorates, using their lophophores for filter feeding. Brachiopods were a diverse part of most marine faunas in the Paleozoic.

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Hoosier paleontologists

Samuel Almond Miller

Miller was a lawyer and amateur paleontologist who was born in Ohio in 1837. He described many fossils from the Paleozoic of North America and authored several major compendia of North American fossils, including "North American Geology and Paleontology" (1889).

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