lecture: D229, Mon & Wed
11:00-11:50
seminars: B328, 1: Thu 11:00-11:50, 2: Fri: 11:00-11:50
lab: A101, open lab (you should plan to be in the lab approximately 2 hours per
week)
| week of | READING T: chapters to be read from "Historical Geology" |
SEMINAR TOPIC | LAB
EXERCISE DUE L: lab chapter (handouts for rock and fossil identification are attached) |
| 1/11 | Introduction to Historical Geology & Geologic Time Scale | ||
| 1/18 (off Mon) |
T 1: The Dynamic
and Evolving Earth T 2: Earth Materials - Minerals and Rocks |
rock description | |
| 1/25 | T 2: Earth
Materials - Minerals and Rocks T 6: Sedimentary Rocks |
rock origins | |
| 2/1 | T 2: Earth
Materials - Minerals and Rocks T 6: Sedimentary Rocks |
rock origins | rock
descriptions & origins - 15 pts. (L: Chapter 1 ) |
| 2/8 | T 5:, p. 85-87: Fossils | fossil origins | fossil
descriptions - 15 pts. L 4: p. 142-147 |
| 2/15 (off Mon) |
T5: Rocks, Fossils, & Time | correlation | |
| 2/22 | T5: Rocks,
Fossils, & Time project introduction T 6: Sedimentary Rocks |
transgression & regression | Stratigraphy
- 20 pts. rock core description and correlation L3: p. 112-120, parts A, B, C |
| 3/1 | T 3: Plate
Tectonics WED: TIME SCALE EXAM |
plate tectonics and rocks | Facies mapping - 15 pts.
L 3: (101-106) ex. 3-2, 3-3, 3-4 |
| 3/8 | L: Chapter
2, p. 86-87, ex. 2-9 L: Chapter 5, p. 232-235, Map B, ex. 10 MID-TERM EXAM (take home) |
MID-TERM EXAM | match rocks to environments of formation - 30 pts |
| 3/15 (off Fri) |
MON: MID-TERM EXAM
DUE MON: The Archean Eon
WED: T 4: Geologic Time |
Interpretation of the Earth’s History | |
| 3/22 |
SPRING BREAK |
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| 3/29 |
MON: T 4: Geologic Time WED: Proterozoic Eon |
Interpretation of the Earth’s History | Time and
Ordering of Events - 15 pts. L: Chapter 2, p. 70-76, parts A-F ex 2-9 (p. 86-87) Radiometric Dating - 15 pts. |
| 4/5 |
MON: Cambrian & Ordovician WED: Silurian & Devonian |
Paleozoic Rocks of Illinois | Early
Paleozoic fossils - 15 pts. (handout) L: Chapter 4, p. 147-150, 156-198 Handbook of Illinois Stratigraphy |
| 4/12 |
MON: Mississippian - Permian WED: Triassic & Jurassic |
TIME
SCALE EXAM Mass Extinctions |
Late
Paleozoic fossils - 15 pts. (handout) L: Chapter 4, p. 142-150, 156-198 Handbook of Illinois Stratigraphy |
| 4/19 |
MON: Cretaceous WED: Paleogene & Neogene |
patterns of life
through time T 8, 9, 12, 13, 15, 18, 19 |
Mesozoic
fossils - 15 pts. (handout) L: Chapter 4, p. 142-150, 156-198 Handbook of Illinois Stratigraphy |
| 4/26 |
MON: Pleistocene & Holocene WED: T7: The Diversity of Life |
cladistics | Cenozoic
fossils - 15 pts. (handout) L: Chapter 4, p. 142-150, 156-198 Handbook of Illinois Stratigraphy |
| 5/3 | T 7: Evolution |
natural selection | cladogram - 10 pts. |
| 5/10 | T 7: Evolution | ||
| FINAL EXAM (Wednesday, 5/12) | |||