GEOLOGY 1005 (Earth History) GENERAL SYLLABUS
Paul Heller Room 311A Geology, heller@uwyo.edu
Mark Clementz, Room ESB 1014, mclemen1@uwyo.edu
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LECTURE |
READING |
WebCast (Quicktime) |
| 1/14 | Introduction | ||
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ORIGIN OF THE UNIVERSE |
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| 1/16 | 1. Deep Space & Deep Time | #1. Lunine - Chapt. 2 | |
| 1/18-25 | 2. Origin of the Universe |
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| 1/28 | 3. Creation of Solar System | ||
| 1/30-2/1 | 4. The Hadean Earth | ||
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HOW THE EARTH WORKS |
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| 2/4-6 | 5. Rocks and Minerals | ||
| 2/8-11 | |||
| 2/13 | TEST #1 |
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| 2/15-18 | 7. Time Scale & Stratigraphy | ||
| 2/20-22 | 8. Isotopic Dating | #2. Lunine Chapt. 5 | |
| 2/25-29 | 9. Plate Tectonics | #3. Lunine Chapt. 9 | |
| 3/3-5 | 10. Earthquakes & Imaging the Earth | ||
EARTH HISTORY |
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| 3/7-10 | 11. Geologic history of Earth Part 1 | #4. Prothero Paleozoic | |
| 3/12 |
TEST #2 |
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| 3/14-26 | 12. Geologic history of Earth Part 2 | #5. Porthero Mesozoic-Cenozoic | |
HISTORY OF LIFE |
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| 3/28- 4/2 | 13. Origin of Life | #6. Sepkoski |
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| 4/4-23 | 14. Phanerozoic Life | #7. Cowan | |
| 4/25 |
TEST #3 |
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CLIMATE & MAN |
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| 4/28-30 | 15. Late Cenozoic Climate | ||
| 5/2 | 16. Man/Earth Interactions |