mardi 3 janvier 2012

History of life through time

Camelops minidokae dentary from the Pleistocene of California. Photo by UCMP scientist Pat Holroyd.

(UCMP has the largest paleontological collection of any university museum in the world. These well-curated and computerized collections include fossil and modern organisms representing prokaryotes to vertebrates collected from all continents. The Museum serves the University community in various research projects and provides support for instruction at Berkeley and other UC campuses. In addition, the collections are used by paleontologists, biologists and geologists throughout the world)



Radiometric Dating

De mystérieux fossiles lèvent le voile sur l'origine des animaux

Faut-il une étude détaillée des eaux souterraines?



Jean-François Hélie, professeur associé au département des sciences de la Terre et de l'atmosphère de l'UQAM, ne voit aucune raison de ne pas faire le portrait isotopique régional des eaux souterraines.