Geochronology Courses and Certifications

Kiersti Ford

Earth's Past: Geochronology

Explore Earth's history through geochronology, learning dating techniques and geological timescales. Gain insights into our planet's ancient past and evolutionary timeline.

• YouTube
• 33 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Mike Sammartano

Relative Dating of Rock Layers

Learn to reconstruct geologic events from exposed rock cross-sections using relative dating laws.

• YouTube
• 27 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Earth and Space Sciences X

Geology - Geologic Time

Learn how geologists reconstruct Earth’s history using relative dating, fossils, rock-layer correlation, and radioactive decay to build the geologic time scale.

• YouTube
• 52 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

GEO GIRL

Earth’s Age - How We Know Earth is 4.55 Billion Years Old

Learn how relative and radiometric dating, radioactive decay, and rocks establish Earth’s age at 4.55 billion years.

• YouTube
• 26 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

GEO GIRL

The Key to Geologic Dating - Understanding Initial Isotope Composition in Rocks

Explore the intricacies of geologic dating, focusing on isotope behavior in Earth's interior. Learn about diffusion, compatible elements, and techniques for accurate age determination of rocks.

• YouTube
• 28 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Sven Holbik

Geologic Time Lecture

Learn how geologists reconstruct Earth’s history using relative dating principles, fossils, stratigraphic correlation, and radiometric techniques.

• YouTube
• 55 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

GEO GIRL

Stable and Radiogenic Isotopes in Igneous Petrology - Geochronology and Isotope Tracers

Explains how stable and radiogenic isotopes reveal temperatures, rock ages, and magma sources in igneous systems.

• YouTube
• 26 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Deep Time: Discovering an Ancient Earth

24 ratings at Coursera

Trace Earth's history back billions of years through radiometric dating, the Precambrian basement, the Great Unconformity, and the rise and fall of the Rocky Mountains.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

IIT Bombay;  NPTEL

Principles of Stratigraphy

Learn to correlate marine and non-marine layered rocks using litho-, bio-, sequence, chrono-, magneto-, chemo-, and hydrostratigraphic principles.

• Swayam
• 12 weeks
• Available until Oct 9, 2026
• Free Online Course

Thomas Richard Holtz

Dinosaurs: A Natural History - GEOL104 Lectures 2021

1 rating

Discover the complete natural history of dinosaurs through comprehensive paleontology, evolution, anatomy, and extinction events in this university-level geology series.

• YouTube
• 1 day 14 hours 1 minute
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology

The Evolutionary History of Tuatara and its Extinct Relatives

Explore the fascinating evolution of Tuatara and its extinct relatives, uncovering new insights from a fossil discovery in Wyoming that sheds light on the morphology and history of these ancient reptiles.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 13 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology

The North Remembers - Ice Age Fossil Finds from Medicine Hat, Alberta

Explore Alberta's Ice Age fossils, including Canada's only Smilodon fatalis specimen, and discover the rich Pleistocene record beyond dinosaurs in this fascinating paleontological journey.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 19 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology

Ice Age Horses of the American West

Explore the fascinating history of ice age horses in North America, their ecological significance, and recent paleontological discoveries in Nevada and Wyoming.

• YouTube
• 53 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology

The World's Best Preserved Armoured Dinosaur - Discovery and Research of Borealopelta markmitchelli

Explore the remarkable Borealopelta markmitchelli, a spectacularly preserved ankylosaur from Alberta. Learn about its discovery, preparation, and the unprecedented insights it provides into Early Cretaceous dinosaur life.

• YouTube
• 51 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Nick Zentner

Crystalline Core with Stacia Gordon

A geologist explains how North Cascades crystalline-core rocks reveal deep crustal pressures, rapid Eocene exhumation, strike-slip faulting, and regional uplift.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 59 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video