What is a Marker Bed?
I’ve had a couple requests to give a few more examples of what a geological marker bed (a.k.a. marker horizon) actually is, and more fully explain why I chose Marker Bed as the title...
Category: Paleontology
Marker Bed
Well, after twenty-five years I’m pleased to announce that Marker Bed is finally published and ready for purchase on the Amazon website. Our story takes place 300,000,000 years in the future, and while Marker...
An Evolving Debate
As discussed in a recent post, fossils help paleontologists unravel earthtime and sort events into their proper order. Along with the other rules and clues we have discussed regarding absolute time and relative age...
Paleontology: How the Earth Makes a Fossil
We’ve spent a couple recent posts discussing geologic time and the two methods earth scientists use to describe and measure it. We started with a general introduction to earthtime and absolute age dating (Intro...
Intro to Relative Geologic Time
If you managed to plow through my latest post on Absolute Age Dating (Intro to Geologic Time), you probably muttered something like “This sounds too much like real science to be any fun at...
