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Course outline

 Dr Balog's GOL-106 Class
2013 spring
Week Lecture Notes Homework Assignments Additional references, review questions
1. Geologic Time

Read chapter 17. in the book

 

 

Internet exercises 1.

Virtual dating I.

Virtual dating II.

Review questions

Geologic time (USGS site, very interesting)

Aid in learning the time scale

Check your knowledge

2. Rock, Fossils and time

 

Relative dating exercise I.

Relative dating exercise II.

Review questions

Unconformitites

Interesting site about different sea-levels

3. Origin and interpretation of sedimentary rocks 

Read chapter 6. in the book

 

Sedimentary environment exercise

Do the Mt. Hood river ,The great Salt Lake, any of the Florida Keys exercises, and print out your answers!

 

Review questions

Sedimentary features

Photos of sed. environments

Good site to study

Another one

 

4. Evolution 

Read chapter 18. in the book

 

Evolution Internet exercise

Review questions

Good site

5. Plate Tectonics 

Read chapter 2. in the book

 

Plate Tectonics Internet exercises

Review questions

Interesting site helping with plate tectonics and lot more

 

6. Precambrian History: The Archean Eon

Read chapter 19. Archean part in the book

 

Hadean, Archean internet exercise

Review questions

Archean from Paleos

7. Precambrian History: The Proterozoic Eon

Read chapter 19. Proterozoic part in the book

 

Internet exercises Proterozoic

Review questions

Proterozoic from Paleos

 

8. Geology of the Paleozoic era

Read chapter 20. in the book

 

Internet Exercise; Snowball Earth

Review questions

Interesting about Paleozoic

9. Life of the Paleozoic era

Read chapter 21. in the book

Chapter notes

Fossil lab

Review questions

Interesting about Paleozoic

10. Geology of the Mesozoic era

Read chapter 22. in the book

Chapter notes

 

Review questions

Interesting about Mesozoic life

12. Cenozoic Geologic History:Tertiary period

Read chapter 23. in the book

Chapter notes

Internet exercise on ice age

Review questions

The Berkley site

Cenozoic

13. Cenozoic Geologic History:Quaternary Period

Read chapter 23. in the book

Chapter notes

 

Review questions

Site explaining Quaternary