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Historical Geology 102 Schedule |
| Day | Date | LectureTopic | Chapter |
Movie | Lab Excercise |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Thurs | Oct. 5 | Hadean | 6 |
Earth Origins | graptolites, vert., plants; miscellaneous foss quest. |
| Tues | Oct. 10 | Mid Term exam | 1-6 |
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| 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 | 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 pictures; fossil exercise 1 table; |
| Tues | Nov. 14 | Zuni (Cretaceous seaway) | 11, 12 |
Walking with Beasts - Cret. (land dinosaurs); (Cret. reptiles) | fossil exercise 2 pictures; fossil exercise 2 table |
| Thurs | Nov. 16 | Laramide | 11, 12 |
Walk with Beasts - Tert. ungulates | |
| 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; spring 2006 review |
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