REFERENCES

References and activities for tour groups, schools, and individuals:

• Scavenger hunts & puzzles (PDF)
• Reference sheet & timeline on the story.

Other San Francisco Bay Area resources:

• The Exploratorium -- What is Evidence?
• U.C. Berkeley's Museum of Paleontology -- exhibits on Understanding Science , History of Life , and Understanding Evolution

The content of this project is based on the work and writings of many scientists and educators:

• Plate Tectonics
• Early Earth History
• Early Life Evolution
• The Universe and Solar System
• California Geology
• Other/All

PLATE TECTONICS (Back to top)

• Geologic History of Washington State -- Burke Museum
• Geologic History of Rhode Island -- Jamestown, Rhode Island Visitor Information
• Rodinia -- http://www.peripatus.gen.nz/paleontology/Rodinia.html
• Rodinia -- NGU - Geodynamics -- Norges geologiske undersokellse -- Torsvik Trond
• Educational Multimedia Visualization Center -- U.C. Santa Barbara

EARLY EARTH HISTORY (Back to top)

• Wilde, S.A., Valley, J.W., Peck, W.H., Graham, C.M., 2001, Evidence from detrital zircons for the existence of continental crust and oceans on the Earth 4.4 Gyr ago, NATURE 409, 175-178 (11 January 2001).
• NASA -- Earth Observatory
• Dutch, Steven I., "Earth" World Book Online Reference Center. 2004. World Book, Inc.
• The Earliest Piece of the Earth -- U.W. Madison
• Cool Early Earth -- U.W. Madison
• John W. Valley, William H. Peck, Elizabeth M. King, Simon A. Wilde, 2002, A Cool Early Earth, Geology. 30: 351-354.
• NSF -- Office of Legislative and Public Affairs -- Earlier Water on Earth? Oldest Rock Suggests Hospitable Young Planet
• Science Daily -- http://www.sciencedaily.com
  • New Evidence Suggests Early Oceans Bereft Of Oxygen For Eons; Early Life May Have Lived Very Differently Than Life Today
  • Liquid Water At Earth's Surface 4.3 Billion Years Ago, Scientists Discover
  • Early Earth Likely Had Continents, Was Habitable, According To New Study
  • Oldest Known Rocks On Earth Discovered: 4.28 Billion Years Old
• Google Earth Location of Jack Hills, WA
• A Review of the Universe -- Structures, Evolutions, Observations, and Theories -- Age of Animals
• Lawrence Berkeley National Labs -- Gold Rush Still Haunts San Francisco Bay
• University of Michigan -- Global Change Curriculum -- Evolution of the Atmosphere: Composition, Structure and Energy
• www.space.com -- Evidence for Ancient Bombardment of Earth
• www.space.com -- Catastrophe, Mother of Evolution: How Life Survived Early Bombardment of Asteroids and Comets
• The Origin of Life on Earth by Leslie E. Orgel
• Thorsten Kleine, Herbert Palme, Klaus Mezger, Alex N. Halliday, 2005, Hf-W Chronometry of Lunar Metals and the Age and Early Differentiation of the Moon, Science 9 December 2005: Vol. 310. no. 5754, pp. 1671 - 1674,
• University of Virginia -- ASTR 121 (O'Connell) Study
• Astrobiology Magazine: Earth's Oldest Mineral Grains Suggest an Early Start for Life
• National Geographic Prehistoric Animal Facts
• Palaeos -- Carboniferous

EARLY LIFE EVOLUTION (Back to top)

• Fossil Mall -- About Stromatolites
• Virtual Fossil Museum -- Stromatolites
• Snowball Earth
• Sergi Sabater, Helena Guasch, Anna Romaní, and Isabel Muñoz, 2000, Stromatolitic communities in Mediterranean streams: adaptations to a changing environment. Journal of Biodiversity and Conservation, Publisher Springer Netherlands; Volume 9, Number 3 / March, 2000
• Palaeobotanical Research Group -- University of MÜNSTER -- The Earliest Life
• J. William Schopf, 2006, Fossil evidence of Archaean life. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2006 June 29; 361(1470): 869–885.
• Deep Biosphere Laboratory
• Geology 331 Lecture Notes (Principles of Paleontology), T. Holtz, University of Maryland.
• Geology 102 Lecture Notes , Pamela J. W. Gore, Georgia Perimeter College, Clarkston, GA
• Museum Victoria -- Dinosaurs and Fossils
• DHD Multimedia Gallery
• Federation of American Scientists -- Grypania image
• James St. John, OSU-Newark, Grypania
• Nicholas J. Butterfield, Palaeobiology, 26(3): 386-404, September 2000
• Access Excellence @ the national health museum -- The Radiation of the First Animals by Dr. Jerry Lipps
• Siberian Traps Research Group
-- University of Leicester
• Rosalind V. White and Andrew D. Saunders, 2004, Volcanism, impact and mass extinctions: incredible or credible coincidences? Lithos 2004.09.016 Elsevier B.V.
• The Geological Society, UK -- Flood Basalts
• R.P. Hilton, 2003, Dinosaurs and other Mesozoic Reptiles of California. Berkeley: University of California Press.
• Museum of Paleontology -- U.C. Berkeley -- Dilophosaurus
• Oceans of Kansas On-line Paleontological Museum
• Gierlinski and Niedzwiedzki, 2005, New saurischian dinosaur footprints from the Lower Jurassic of Poland. Geological Quarterly, 2005, 49 (1): 99-104.

THE UNIVERSE AND SOLAR SYSTEM (Back to top)

• Max Planck Institut fur Astrophysik -- Millenium Project
• NASA -- Images of the Day
• JPL/NASA -- Welcome to the Planets
• Hubble Images
• Spudis, Paul D., "Moon" World Book
Online Reference Center. 2004. World Book, Inc.
• Washington University in St. Louis - Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences -- Lunar Geochemistry -- Randy L. Korotev
• http://www.newarkcampus.org/professional/osu/faculty/jstjohn/Outer%20Space%20Rocks/Lunaite.htm
• Titan: A Moon With Atmosphere -- Astrobiology Magazine -- Talk by Chris McKay, Oct. 27, 2005
• Yeomans, Donald K. "Comet." World Book Online Reference Center. 2005. World Book, Inc.
• Welcome to StarChild -- A Learning Center for Young Astronomers

CALIFORNIA (Back to top)

• Geology of the Golden Gate Headlands , William P. Elder, National Park Service, Golden Gate National Recreation Area
• Ted Konigsmark, Geologic Trips San Francisco and the Bay Area, 1998, GEOPRESS
• San Francisco Bay -- USGS -- Bathymetry
• San Francisco Bay -- USGS -- Earthquakes
• Pinet, Paul, 2000, Invitation to Oceanography, Jones and Bartlett Publishers
• University of Wisconsin-Madison -- Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies -- Satellite Applications for Geoscience Education
• San Francisco Estuary Institute

OTHER/ALL (Back to top)

• AAAS -- American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Earth From Above Images -- Yann Arthus Bertrand
• NASA -- Visible Earth
• Prentice Hall Publishing -- Essentials of Oceanography , Trujillo and Thurman
• Prentice Hall Publishing -- Geology ; Chernicoff and Whitney
• USGS Education
• USGS Images
• Wikipedia
• Nobel Lectures, 1967, Physics 1901-1921, Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam.
• Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffman (eds) (1981). Albert Einstein, The Human Side. Princeton University Press.
• 43 Schilpp (Ed.), P. A. (1979). Albert Einstein — Autobiographical Notes. Open Court Publishing Company, 8–9.