TIME AND SPACE SCIENCE

TIME / SPACE SCIENCE

RELATIVE TIME / LAYERS IN THE ROCK
ABSOLUTE TIME / RADIO ISOTOPES
TREE TIME / DENDROCHRONOLOGY
EXTINCTIONS
METEORITES / COMETS / ASTEROIDS
IMPACT CRATER MYSTERIES
SOLAR SYSTEM / SUN / STARS
        see also external Links page ...


geological time as a clock


TIME

Geological / Evolutionary Time...


RELATIVE TIME / LAYERS IN THE ROCK

E-Learning    Geological Time...

image  The Principle of superposition
image  Formation of Gondwana

Rock and Fossil Age Dating Exercise


ABSOLUTE TIME / RADIO ISOTOPES

Carbon 14 Dating Calculator (interactive javascript) and Problems dating the arrival of the Aboriginal Peoples in Australia
Radioactive Isotopes - the "Clocks in Rocks"

image   strontium-rubidium isotope
image   parent-daughter graph
image   Parent-daughter cartoon
image   Determining Argon gas concentration

Other Absolute Dating Methods

Luminensence dating - Thermoluminescence (TL), OSL and Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL)
Electron-spin resonance
Fission track dating
Amino acid racmisation and epirmisation
Obisdian hydration dating - volcanic glass
Cosmogenic nuclide exposure dating

TREE TIME / DENDROCHRONOLOGY

Dendrochronology -dating using tree rings
Australia's own living fossil the Wollemi Pine and other "Living Fossils"
Events through geological time

 

EXTINCTIONS

The crater that caused the Permian Extinction?

Significant extinctions in the past

Trace Fossils
Microfossils

image   Famous Extinctions through time - graphical form
image   Global Temperature Change through Geological Time
image   geological time scale types of life
image   geological time scale
image   geological time scale large

SPACE SCIENCE

- a brief overview as it relates to the earth sciences
...see our external Links page for some excellent sites if you want more detail...

METEORITES / COMETS / ASTEROIDS

Sequence of Cratering on Venus using False Colour Image Processing



  Order of cratering not evident in the original black and white image



Shades of grey are assigned false colours and  indicate more than one cratering event



Additional false colours are added and the sequence of cratering is clear

         see also...Image Processing - finding hidden treasure...
         see also... image processing to interpret the use of aboriginal stone tools...

Meteorites
Minerals in Meteorites
Identifying Meteorites
Meteorite Cratering on Earth
Tektites - Australia's unusual meteorite
The Tunguska Event - eyewitness reports translated into English
E-Learning   Meteorites and Mass Extinctions...
Comets

animation    Hale-Bopp Comet Simulation (59K GIF)

IMPACT CRATER MYSTERIES
Impact Craters
Queensland's Giant Meteorite Crater? 8.8km X 7.2km

SOLAR SYSTEM / SUN / STARS
Solar System
The Sun
The Stars
The Eight Motions of the Earth
Planetary Magnetospheres
The Aurora - The Basics
Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion
E-Learning   The gravity of the Moon creates Ocean Tides

animation     Solar Eclipse (24K GIF)
animation     Lunar Eclipse (95K GIF)
animation     Phases of the Moon (256k .avi download to play)
animation     Phases of the moon(.gif)
animation    The Aurora - tiny .gif simulation  
sound file     Doppler Effect sound demonstration(.WAV)
image          The Earth's Magnetosphere- diagram

The Basics of Space Flight - external link opens in new window...
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/basics/
Excellent site on the basic concepts of space flight from NASA

      see also Links page  -->  Space Science...