Calendar for Spring Quarter, 2008

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Note: New material is being added and updated each week. Dates are subject to change.

Week
Monday
Wednesday
Friday
1

3/31
Introduction to Historical Geology

Lab 1: Geologic Time Scale

Intro ppt

4/2
Building Blocks, Energy and Earth Cycles

Scientific Method ppt

Energy and Matter ppt

4/4
Class Canceled

2

4/7
Minerals: The Geologic Alphabet

Lab 2a: Earth Materials

Minerals ppt

4/9
Rocks: The Language of Geology - Igneous Rocks

Lab 2b: Earth Materials

Igneous Rocks ppt

4/11
Time Scale Quiz

Rocks: The Language of Geology - Metamorphic Rocks

Lab 2b (cont.)

Metamorphic Rocks ppt

3

4/14
Sedimentary Rocks, Structures & Environment

Sedimentary Rocks ppt

4/16
Lab 3a: Sedimentary Rocks


4/18
Sedimentary Structures & Environment

Lab 3b: Sedimentary Structures

Sedimentary Structures & Environments ppt


4

4/21
Principles of Statigraphy &
Geologic Time: What Came First?

Lab 4a: Stratigraphy

Stratigraphy ppt

4/23
Earth Week - Soil and Solar (meet in C130)


4/25
Earth Week: Geology in Action Field Trip (meet in C130)

Lab 4a Due

5

4/28
Midterm 1

Geologic Time: Telling Time

Lab 5: Telling Time

4/30
Lab 4b: Stratigraphy Field Trip
(May return at 3:30)

5/2
Geologic Time: Telling Time

Lab 4b: Stratigraphy FT Wrap Up

Time ppt

6

5/5
Overview & Origins of the Solar System

Origin on the Solar System ppt

5/7
Interior & Evolution of the Early Earth

Lab 6: Geologic Maps

Hadean Earth ppt


5/9
Hadean World and the Start of Plate Tectonics

Lab 6 (cont.)

Plate Tectonics ppt

7

5/12
Life on Earth

What is Life? ppt

5/14
Diversity and Evolution

Diversity and Evolution ppt

5/16
Origins of Life

Origins of Life Video

(see 5/19 ppt)

 

8

5/19
Life in gthe Precambrian

Precambrian Life ppt

5/21
Midterm 2

Late Precambrian - Snowballs and Metazoans

Proterozoic Geology ppt

5/23
Paleozoic: Diversification and Early Oceans

Paleozoic Life 1 ppt

Lab 8: Animal Fossils

9
5/26
No Class
Memorial Day

5/28
Paleozoic: Moving to Land & Mass Extinction

Paleozoic Life 2 ppt

Lab 8(cont)

5/30
Paleozoic: Ice Ages, Extinctions and Constructing Pangea

Paleozoic Geology ppt

Lab 8(cont)

10

6/2
Mesozoic: Dinosaurs, Plesiosaurs, & Mesosaurs, Oh My!

Lab 9: Animal Fossils

Mesozoic Life ppt

6/4
Mesozoic: Pangea & Inland Seas

Mesozoic Geology ppt

Lab 9: (cont)

6/6
Lab 10: Animal Fossils 3: Vertebrates
Field Trip to Burke Museum
(May return at 3:00)

11

6/9
Cenozoic: Ice Ages, Flowers, and Us

Summary of Earth History

Cenozoic ppt

6/11
Final Exam 1:30-3:00

 

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Wednesday, June 11, 2008