The practice room of the Geological Institute in the Humboldt Building of TUBAF: on the walls, drawer shelves full of real fossils, on top of which are four new dioramas with realistic replicas of their primeval environment. In the middle of it are students who work with rocks and fossils - and use the new dioramas to better understand geological eras and recognise how ecosystems have developed over the course of the Earth's history.
Students on the Bachelor's degree programme in Geology/Mineralogy and other geoscientific degree programmes in particular will benefit from the new visualisation options. "The ability to "read" information from geological and palaeontological finds requires intensive practice. The new dioramas enable students to grasp the potential of geological and palaeontological evidence and to interpret it correctly in relation to its environmental and formation processes," says palaeontology professor Thomas Wotte.
The new display cases are now being used in the "Fundamentals of Palaeontology" course in particular.
