Geology Seminar 7 - Palaeontology Part 1

Seminar 7 has now been re-recorded - required because there were problems with the recording file when I last ahve the talk to a live audience.

In Seminar 7 I introduce the subject of palaeontology, a topic which geology students spend a considerable proportion of the GSCE, A-Level or Degree Level geology courses studying.  I start by looking at the evolution of life on Earth including the Cambrian "Explosion".  I also look at the fossilisation processes and methods of preservation. 

The set of seminars produced to date includes several presentations on the major fossil groups, the first of which, the Trilobites, was covered in Seminar 8.