Look ye unto the rock whence you are hewn
and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged.

- Isaiah 51:1


Key words or concepts:
Events of the Mesozoic:

Breakup of Pangea

Laurasia (N. Am and Europe and Asia)
Gondwanaland (S. Am., Africa, Antarctica, Australia and India)
Absaroka Sequence
Inland Seaway in Jurassic (Sundance Sea)
Inland Seaway in Cretaceous
Triassic Period
Chinle formation (Petrified Forest, Arizona)
Jurssic Period
Navajo Sandstone (Zion Natoinal Park)
Sundance formation (belemnites)
Morrison formation (dinosaurs)

Useful links:

Earth Science Picture of the Day

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