Lecture 16 - Mesozoic Earth History Part 1

Lecturer: Dr. Christopher White
Location: Lone Star College, University Park

[aeugenegray]

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[MaryAnnNytowl]

I just love listening to these! They're great to have going while doing just about anything!

[claytonsmoking]

Thank you Dr. White for letting us partake in these lectures

[JMDinOKC]

This bloke should record "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" as an audiobook. I'd buy it.

[RaptorMaitre]

One of the best channels out there for serious learning

[StereoSpace]

Awesome and fascinating lecture. Thank you for posting this.

[myidvarchive]

I love these, thank you for sharing them with us

[charlesjmouse]

I appreciate these lectures probably weren't intended for 'Joe public' but I'm thoroughly enjoying them all the same.
Hmm, this episode started with a lot of orogenies. I guess that makes this an orogenous zone - How stimulating!

Human nature:
It's interesting to consider that a whole lot of people are like me following along out of interest alone and finding the subject most entertaining, Yet the students at which this series is aimed will almost certainly have wished to be doing almost anything else even though they all chose to take part.
It's funny how a requirement to do something almost always robs that activity of any interest or personal value. I guess it's no fun being a teacher.

PS
It's also interesting to observe that seemingly every fully aquatic tetrapod to exist got it's start within the Paleotethys or Tetyhs. Every other aquatic tetrapod started out elsewhere. Why?
For what little it's worth my suspicion is the transition to being fully marine is much harder than 'learning to swim', possibly only the (paleo)Tethys ever had sufficiently benign conditions for long enough for returning tetrapods to get the hang of bearing live young in to water?

[stke]

Thanks a lot.
I'm a computer scientist and learn a lot of geology from these lectures

[chadr]

There is no KT boundary in Oklahoma where my grandparents property is. The rocks on the surface are about 85 million years old there are ammonite fossils laying around on the floor outside. The odd thing there are no fish and very few marine reptile fossils. There was a mosausaur skull used to prop the door open they called it toothy. It had lots of teeth.

[SiriusZiriux]

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Lord Vader will NOT be Impressed.

[chadr]

They find marine reptile fossils northwest of their property the water must have been too shallow at their house.