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Historical Geology 102

I am not teaching this class this semester

 

Historical Geology 102 Schedule
Day Date LectureTopic
Chapter
 Movie Lab Excercise
           
Thurs. Aug. 24 Historical Geology Syllabus
1
 Out of the Rock Student questionnaire
Tues. Aug. 29 Introduction, History of Geology
1
 This Land Topographic map lab
Thues. Aug. 31 Geologic Time
1
 Cosmos #2 cross-section interpretation lab
Tues. Sept. 5 Minerals, Rocks review
2
   Minerals, mineral pictures, igneous rocks lab, sed-meta rocks lab, igneous, sed-meta rock pictures
Thurs. Sept. 7 Sedimentary Environments
3
  

Sed. structures quest. Sed. structures pictures

Tues. Sept. 12 Rock textures, structures
3
   Geological Map Excercise, structures lab
Thurs. Sept. 14 Fossil Preservation
4
   contour mapping lab
Tues. Sept. 19 Fossils - Evolution of Life
4
   AZ geologic map questions
Thurs Sept. 21 Sedimentary Structures
5
   Facies map exercise
Tues Sept. 26 Fossil Preservation
5
 Living Machine plate tectonic lab
Thurs Sept. 28 Plate Tectonics
6
   fossil preservation lab, pictures
Tues Oct. 3 Exam 1 review
6
    
Thurs Oct. 5 Hadean
6
 Earth Origins graptolites, vert., plants; miscellaneous foss quest.
Tues Oct. 10 Mid Term exam
1-6
  

 
Thurs Oct. 12 Archean
  Trilobites lab pictures; trilobite questions
Tues Oct. 17 Proterozoic
7
   Brachiopods pictures, brach, bryozoan quest.
Thurs Oct. 19 Burgess Shale fauna
8, 10
  lab exam
Tues Oct. 24

Sauk (Camb. Early Ord.)

8, 10
  Corals lab pictures; Cnidaria questions
Thurs Oct. 26 Tippecanoe (Ord. - Silurian)
8, 10
Origin of Life bivalves lab pictures; bivalves questions
Tues Oct. 31 Kaskaskia (Dev. - Miss.)
8, 10
  gastropods lab pictures; gastropods questions
Thurs Nov. 2 Absaroka (Penn., Perm., Triassic)
9
 Walking with Beasts - beginnin - Coelophysis cephalopod lab pictures; cephalopod questions
Tues Nov. 7 Zuni (Jurassic) Nevadan orogeny; Cret seaway
11, 12
 Walking with Beasts - Jur. Titans (land dinosaurs); Jur. Cruel sea (Jur. reptiles) Echinoderms lab pictures; echinoderm questions
Thurs Nov. 9 Zuni (Jurassic)
11, 12
 Walking with Beasts -

fossil exercise 1; fossil exercise 1 pictures; fossil exercise 1 table;

Tues Nov. 14 Zuni (Cretaceous seaway)
11, 12
Walking with Beasts - Cret. (land dinosaurs); (Cret. reptiles) fossil exercise 2; fossil exercise 2 pictures; fossil exercise 2 table
Thurs Nov. 16 Laramide
11, 12
Walk with Beasts - Tert. ungulates

fossil exercise 3; fossil exercise 3 pictures; fossil exercise 3 table

Tues Nov. 21 Presentations
13, 14, 15
  finish fossil labs
Thur Nov. 23 Thanksgiving
handout
   no class
Sun TBD field trip
Tucson Mts. field trip
Tues Nov. 28 Tejas (Tertiary)
13, 14
Walk with Beasts - Tert. fossil exam
Thurs Nov. 30 Late Tertiary
13, 14
Walk with Beasts - Tert. Evolution of Horses
Tues. Dec. 5 Quaternary - Pleistocene
13, 14
Ice Ages - glaciers movie glaciers
Thurs. Dec. 7 Quaternary - Pleistocene
13, 14
Ice Ages - Mammoths movie Evolution of Elephants
Tues Dec. 12 FINAL EXAM
8-15
   Review


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