HISTORICAL
GEOLOGY
Geology
3020 – Spring 2012
DATE:
TOPICS
TEXT READINGS
January
17
Introduction
Ch.
1
19
Stratigraphic principles
Ch. 2
24
Sedimentary environments and paleogeography
Ch. 5
26
Lab
exercise 1 – stratigraphy and sedimentary environments
31
The fossil record
Ch. 6
February
2
The geologic timescale
Ch. 3
7
Structure of the Earth, orogenesis,
Ch. 7
continental growth by accretion
9
EXAM I
14
Precambrian geology
Ch. 8
16
Early
life
Ch.
8, 9
21
Early Paleozoic geology
I
Ch.
10
23
Lab exercise 2 – Precambrian Life
28
Early Paleozoic geology I, II
Ch. 10
March
1
Lab exercise 3 - Building Bodies (video)
6
Lab exercise 4 - Early Paleozoic life
Ch. 12
8
EXAM II
13
Late Paleozoic geology I
Ch.
11
15 Late
Paleozoic geology II
Ch. 11
March
19-25 SPRING
BREAK
27
Lab exercise 5 - Late Paleozoic
life
Ch. 12
29
Early Mesozoic geology
Ch. 13
April
3
Late Mesozoic geology
Ch. 13
5
Mesozoic life
Ch. 14
10
Lab exercise 6 - Mesozoic life
Ch. 14
12
EXAM III
14
Field
Trip
(Saturday)
17
Cenozoic geology I
Ch. 15
19
Cenozoic geology II
Ch. 15
24
Cenozoic
Life
Ch. 16
26
Lab exercise 7 - Cenozoic life
Ch.
16
May
1
Human origins (Projects due in
class)
Ch. 17
3
Review
10
EXAM IV, Tuesday May 9, 11 a.m..