Seminar Subjects

The following gives a list of suggested seminar titles designed for students having studied the accompanying resource and appropriate texts cited in the bibliography:

• History of research into the Rhynie chert.
• Origin of the Rhynie chert as a hot-spring deposit.
• What is a geothermal system?
• Terrestrial arthropods in the Rhynie chert.
• Aquatic arthropods in the Rhynie chert.
• The structure of one of the Rhynie chert plants (use any plant).
• Fossilisation in the Rhynie chert.
• Evolutionary importance of the Rhynie chert plants.
• Rhynie chert compared with modern sinters deposited from hot-springs.
• Source of the Rhynie hot-spring fluids.
• Composition of the Rhynie hot-spring fluids.
• Role of fungi in the Early Devonian Rhynie ecosystem.
• The life cycle of a typical terrestrial plant from the Rhynie chert - sporophytes and gametophytes.
• Plant spores in the Rhynie chert and associated sedimentary rocks.