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A baculites, 42–43
absolute time scale, 44 Baltic Sea shores, 61
Africa, 82–84, 85, 87, 88–89 banded iron formations, 54
agate, 32 Basin and Range (McPhee), 38
All About Dinosaurs (Andrews), 75 Briggs, Derek, 56
Allosaurus, 34, 59 Buckland, William, 15–16
Alps, 23 Burchfield, Joe D., 46
Alvarez, Lewis, 63 Burgess Shale (Canadian Rockies),
Alvarez, Walter, 63, 64 56–58
Amargasaurus, 76 burial speed, 27
amber, 19, 25
The Amber Forest (Poinar and C
Poinar), 25 Cadbury, Deborah, 15
American Federation of Camarosaurus, 59
Mineralogical Societies (AFMS), Cambrian Explosion, 57
67 Canadian Rockies, 55–58
ammonites, 15, 42–43 carbonization, 27–28
anatomists, 12, 80 Carpenter, Ken, 74
anatomy, 16, 80 casts, 32, 34
Andrews, Roy Chapman, 11, 74 catastrophism theory, 17
angular unconformities, 38, 39–40 Cenozoic Era, 47, 52, 61–63
Anning, Joseph, 15 chimpanzees, 80, 81
Anning, Mary, 15 China, 76–77
Anomalocaris, 56–57, 58 chordates, 57
Apatosaurus, 59, 60 Christian beliefs
aragonite, 32 about fossils, 9
Araripe Basin, 58 catastrophism theory, 17
Archaea, 54 nature as unchanging, 14
Archean Eon, 47 Clark, William, 18
atomic clocks, 47 climate change, 64–65
Australopithecus afarensis, 84 clubs, 67–69
coccoliths, 43
B coelacanth, 17
bacteria conodonts, 43
as decomposer, 23, 30 Cope, Edward Drinker, 60, 62
preservation and, 27 coprolites, 36
Bactrians, 10 Cretaceous Period, 52, 63

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