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Permian sponge reefs
Permian reefs are an important source of oil in West Texas. Instead of coral, the dominant reef-building animals were sponges.
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Basic Geology Concepts
Fossil preservation
Geologic Principles
Plate Tectonics (animation)
Sedimentary Rocks (Clastic, Carbonate, Chemical)
Stratigraphy
The geologic time scale
What is a fossil?
Biodiversity
Biodiversity in Wisconsin and Illinois Reefs
Biodiversity through geologic time
What is Biodiversity and how do we measure it?
Environmental Relations
Environmental setting of the reefs
Reef growth
Reef size
Shallow versus deeper water environments
Geologic history of Northeastern Illinois and Southeastern Wisconsin
Cenozoic
Quaternary (Pleistocene)
The Holocene
Formation of the Earth: The Hadean
Mesozoic
Cretaceous
Paleozoic
Cambrian
Devonian
Mississippian 0.35 bya (IL only)
Ordovician
Pennsylvanian 0.31 bya (IL only)
Silurian
Precambrian
Archean
Archean (WI only)
End of the Archean and Beginning of the Proterozoic
Late Archean
Early Proterozoic
Animikean
Baraboo Interval
Last Phase of Penokean Mountains
Penokean (Archean Terrane Collision)
Penokean (Island Arc Collision)
Late Proterozoic
Middle Proterozoic
Inside the Museum
Construction of the diorama
Digitizing the collection
Laboratory study of reef samples
Scientific collections
Scientific research papers on Silurian reefs
Reefs
The geologic record of reefs on Earth
Cretaceous Rudist Bivalve and coral reefs
Devonian Stromatoporoid and Tabulate Coral reef
Early Cambrian Archaeocyathid reefs
Jurassic Scleractinian Coral reefs
Mississippian Mud Mounds
Permian sponge reefs
Silurian Stromatoporoid and Tabulate Coral reefs
Stromatolites
Triassic Scleractinian Coral reefs
Types of reef organisms
Silurian Reef organisms
Arthropods: Trilobites
Brachiopods
Bryozoans
Chlorophyta and/or Rhodophyta: Algae
Cnidaria: Rugose corals
Cnidaria: Tabulate corals
Echinodermata: Crinoids
Mollusca: Bivalves
Mollusca: Cephalopods
Mollusca: Gastropods
Other echinoderms
Porifera: Receptaculitids
Porifera: Stromatoporoids
Silurian Reefs in the Field
Currie Park Quarry Interreef Outcrops
Dellwood Park Interreef Outcrops
Door County Interreef Outcrops
Hartung Quarry Interreef Outcrops
Hawley Road & Menomonee River Interreef Outcrops
Lime Kiln Park Reef Outcrops
Milwaukee County Stadium Reef Outcrop
Much Wenlock Reef Outcrop
Palmisano Park (Bridgeport) Reef Outcrop
Quarry Lake Park (Racine) Reef Outcrops
Reef Outcrops
Sagawau Canyon Nature Preserve Interreef Outcrops
Schoonmakers Reef Outcrop
Thornton Quarry Reef Outcrop
Wauwatosa Interreef Outcrops
The Fate of Reefs
Modern uses for Silurian Reefs
Quarrying and aggregate
Reefs and petroleum
The demise of Silurian reefs in the Great Lakes region
The Future of Modern Reefs
The Silurian World
Changes in length of a day
Distribution of Silurian reefs
Global distribution of modern and Silurian reefs
Silurian reefs in southeastern Wisconsin and northeastern Illinois
Silurian reefs in the Great Lakes Region
Life in the Oceans
Life on the Land
The Silurian Period
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