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Title: Deep Time Revisited: Focus on the Paleozoic Era
Scheduling Details: June 3, June 5, June 8, June 10, and June 12. 7PM –9 PM ET
Tuition: $225.
Description: Following up on last year’s “Deep Time Revisited: Focus on the Precambrian”, in which we examined the entirety of the Hadean, Archean, and Proterozoic Eons (collectively known as the Precambrian), this year we will look at that first, fascinating era of the Phanerozoic Eon, the Paleozoic Era. We will first “set the stage” with a look at that last period of the Neoproterozoic Era, the Ediacaran Period, with its early experiment in animal evolution, the Ediacaran Fauna, then go on to the first period of the Paleozoic Era, the Cambrian Period, and that major event in the evolution of animals, the Cambrian Explosion. We will go from there through the other major tectonic, geochemical, climatic, and evolutionary events of the Paleozoic Era, ending with a look at the “Mother of All Mass Extinctions”, the Permian Extinction Event, at the end of the era, and we will examine the links between tectonics, climate, extinction, and evolution.
Dr. Frederick S. Rogers (roge...@franklinpierce.edu) is a Professor of Geology and Environmental Science at Franklin Pierce University in Rindge, New Hampshire. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in geology from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and his doctoral degree in geology from the University of Iowa, Iowa City. Within the broad field of geology, his areas of particular interest and research are invertebrate paleontology, micropaleontology, biostratigraphy, and lithostratigraphy, with a focus on Devonianage brachiopods and conodonts. In addition, he has a long-standing interest in all aspects of evolution, broadly defined – cosmic, geological, and biological – and in the history and philosophy of science.
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