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Dinosaurs and their world
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Geology
Undergraduate 4
04/23/2019

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Law of Superposition
Definition
rock layers on top of one another
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Law of continuity
Definition
when separate strata are shown to be connected laterally
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Deposition
Definition
Sediments are added to a location
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Plate-tectonics
Definition
the movement of continental plates.
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33. Bio-stratigraphy
Definition
the use of fossil organisms to date rock.
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Anapsida, synapsida, diapsida
Definition
the three types of amniotic skulls
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36. Archosaur
Definition
= the clade of reptile that dinosaurs, pterosaurs and crocodilians are directly nested in.
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37. Divergent adaptations
Definition
the term for what happens to species due to geographic and genetic separation.
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6. Morphology
Definition
The shape of bone
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8. Taphonomy
Definition
uses maps of bone-beds to understand burial and preservation processes.
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9. Inclusion
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a geologic feature like Devil’s Tower that intrudes into preexisting strata
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18. A cladogram
Definition
a graphic representation of nested taxonomic groupings of organisms that are mathematically quantified
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21. Parsimony
Definition
is the term for the simplest of cladograms or the cladograms with the least steps.
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22. Mutation
Definition
One random aspect of evolutionary change
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23. Natural selection
Definition
A non-random aspect of evolutionary change.
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Triassic
Definition
Oldest Mesozoic
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Jurassic
Definition
Middle Mesozoic
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Cretaceous
Definition
Youngest Mesozoic
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Sedimentary Rock
Definition
From the lithification of sediments
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