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Climate Analysis Using Planktonic Foraminifera Students manipulate, plot, and interpret data on the occurence of a particular species of foraminifera in the fossil record in order to infer changes in climate during the last 160,000 years.

Audience:  6-8 Source:  Olson, Hilary Resource type:  Classroom activity

Inferring Ancient Environments from Fossil Foraminifera Students analyze actual data from samples of microfossils collected from a particular locality. They use this data to infer water depths in the Miocene in order to locate potential petroleum reserves.

Audience:  6-8 Source:  Olson, Hilary Resource type:  Classroom activity