Calendar
Winter 2010

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

Week
Monday
Wednesday
Friday
Weekly ppts
1

1/4
Introduction to Historical Geology

Lab 1: Geologic Time Scale

1/6
Building Blocks, Energy and Earth Cycles

1/8
Minerals: The Geologic Alphabet

Lab 2a: Earth Materials

Intro ppt

Scientific Method ppt

Energy and Matter ppt

Minerals ppt

2

1/11
Rocks: The Language of Geology - Igneous Rocks

Lab 2b: Earth Materials


1/13
Rocks: The Language of Geology - Metamorphic Rocks

Lab 2b (cont.)


1/15
Time Scale Quiz

Rocks: The Language of Geology - Sedimentary Rocks

 

Igneous Rocks ppt

Metamorphic Rocks ppt

Detrital Sedimentary Rocks ppt

3

1/18
No Class
Holiday

1/20
Sedimentary Rocks

Lab 3a: Sedimentary Rocks

1/22
Sedimentary Structures & Environment

Lab 3a: Sedimentary Rocks & 3b: Sedimentary Structures


Chemical Sedimentary Rocks ppt

Sedimentary Structures, Fossils and Environments ppt

4

1/25
Principles of Statigraphy

Lab 3b: Sedimentary Structures

 


1/27
Geologic Time: What Came First?

Lab 4a: Stratigraphy

Project 1: Rock Report Due

1/29
Midterm 1
(Review)

Lab 4a: Stratigraphy

Stratigraphy 1 ppt

Stratigraphy 2 ppt

 

5

2/1
Lab 4b: Stratigraphy Field Trip (trip may return late (3:20))

2/3
Lab 4b: Stratigraphy FT In class follow up

2/5
Geologic Time: Telling Time

Lab 5: Telling Time

Absolute Time ppt

6

2/8
Origins of the Universe and Solar System

Evolution of the Early Earth


2/10
Hadean World & Plate Tectonics

Lab 5: Telling Time

2/12
Hadean World & Plate Tectonics

Lab 6: Geologic Maps


Origin of the Earth ppt

Hadean Earth ppt

Plate Tectonics ppt

Structures (Lab6) ppt

7

2/15
No Class
Holiday


2/17
Diversity and Evolution of Life on Earth

Lab 6: Geologic Maps

2/19
Origins of Life on Earth

Origins of Life Video

Lab 7a: Microfossils

 

 

Basics of Life on Earth ppt

8

2/22
Major steps in the evolution of Precambrian Life

Lab 7a: Microfossils (cont)

2/24
Midterm 2

Late Precambrian - Snowballs and Metazoans

2/26
Paleozoic: Ice Ages, Extinctions and Constructing Pangea

Evolution of diversity and cladistics ppt

Major steps in Precambrian life ppt

9

3/1
Paleozoic: Diversification and Early Oceans

Lab 8: Animal Fossils

3/3
Paleozoic: Moving to Land - Your Inner Fish

Lab 8 (cont)

3/5
Mesozoic: Pangea, Inland Seas, and the Hothouse Earth

 

Lab 9: Animal Fossils

Proterozoic Geology ppt

Paleozoic Geology ppt

Early Paleozoic Life

10

3/8
Mesozoic: Life in the Hothouse

Lab 9: (cont)

3/10
Lab 10: Animal Fossils 3: Vertebrates
Field Trip to Burke Museum
(May return at 3:20)

3/12
Mesozoic: Dinosaurs, Plesiosaurs, & Mesosaurs, Oh My!

Paleozoic Life -Vertibrates ppt

Plant Evolution and Paleozoic Extinctions ppt

 

 

11

3/15
Cenozoic: Mega-Mammals, Birds, Flowers, and Us

Lab 9

3/17
Cenozoic: Ice Ages and the Making of the Modern World

What does the Future Hold?

3/19
Midterm 3

Lab 9 Wrap Up

(Extra Credit - Revisions to Project 2 by email - due by noon on Monday (3/22))

Mesozoic Geology ppt

Mesozoic Life ppt

Cenozoic Overview ppt

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Thursday, March 18, 2010