"Where you're going is the only place in the world where the geese chase you." —Ian Malcolm(src) For the disambiguation page, see Isla Sorna (Disambiguation). Isla Sorna is an island 333 kilometers (207 miles) west of Costa Rica.[2] Isla Sorna is the la
Faunal responses to modern climate change are often averaged and projected to the future at the level of assemblage e.g. refs.28,29. To mirror this approach, we take the mean thermal bias over species regionally present before a climate change and correlate it with the proportion of a given...
Jurassic-Cretaceous (J-K) ammonoids experienced remarkably rapid rates of evolution and extinction. The processes that fueled this evolutionary volatility are not well understood. Evolutionary relationships among and within the six J-K ammonoid suborders
A day after Joe had made the find, Vicky Ward, curator in the School of Geography, Geology and the Environment at the university forwarded his query on to Dean Lomax, an expert on marine reptiles and British dinosaurs, and Mark Evans, an expert on marine reptiles who had been the Curator...
nov. Plu- master ophiuroides was described on the basis of a single specimen showing a well-preserved actinal surface from the Pliensbachian of the Yorkshire coast, UK (Wright 1863, pl. 5 Fig. 1). Gale (this volume) has established the Plumasteridae to accommodate these asteroids which ...
suggest is unlikely to have rotated as part of the Skytrain plate, with Palmer Land. In the southern Weddell Sea, the extensional eastern end of the East Gondwana-Skytrain plate boundary (Fig.7b) has recently been abandoned to form the fossil Weddell Rift parallel to the Coats Land coast...
The Middle Jurassic portion of the Yorkshire coast succession comprises the predominantly non-marine deposits of the Ravenscar Group (Fig. 1b). These represent mostly paralic, fluvial and lacustrine successions deposited at a time of regional uplift and associated sea-level fall (Knox 1973; ...
Sidmouth, town and coastal resort, East Devon district, administrative and historic county of Devon, southwestern England, 15 miles (24 km) east-southeast of Exeter by road. Lying in a hollow formed by the River Sid, the town is shut in by hills that ter