Videos

• NOVA Video on the development of Hutton’s theories and the scientific community of Edinburgh at the time.
• NOVA Video on Charles Darwin’s voyage on the Beagle and how Lyell’s ideas (Darwin took Lyell’s Principles of Geology on this voyage) shaped Darwin’s development of his theory of natural selection.
• "The Weird and Wonderful Fossils of the Burgess Shale" produced by Eric Langshaw, 1990, Canadian Wilderness Videos, hosted by Stephen Jay Gould.

Books

• Stephen Jay Gould, 1987, Time’s Arrow, Time’s Cycle, Harvard University Press.

Web Sites

• http://seis.natsci.csulb.edu/rbehl/300i-L04b.htm. The lecture on time issues in geology has a good graph for radioactive decay and mentions isotope analysis with a mass spectrometer.
• The Geologic Time Scale - nice image, but doesn’t download sufficiently well to preserve detail (http://www.UCMP.Berkeley.EDU/fosrec/TimeScale.html)
• British Geological Survey (http://fac1.vet.ed.ac.uk/ecrr/brgs.htm)
• Virtual Dating (http://vearthquake.calstatela.edu/VirtualDating/)