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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DATE
LECTURE
READING
WebCast (Quicktime)
1/14 Introduction
ORIGIN OF THE UNIVERSE
1/16 1. Deep Space & Deep Time #1. Lunine - Chapt. 2
1/18-25 2. Origin of the Universe

 

1/28 3. Creation of Solar System    
1/30-2/1 4. The Hadean Earth  
HOW THE EARTH WORKS
2/4-6 5. Rocks and Minerals    
2/8-11  
2/13
TEST #1
 
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
3/7-10 11. Geologic history of Earth Part 1 #4. Prothero Paleozoic  
3/12
TEST #2
3/14-26 12. Geologic history of Earth Part 2 #5. Porthero Mesozoic-Cenozoic
 
HISTORY OF LIFE
3/28- 4/2 13. Origin of Life #6. Sepkoski

 

4/4-23 14. Phanerozoic Life #7. Cowan
4/25
TEST #3
CLIMATE & MAN
4/28-30 15. Late Cenozoic Climate    
5/2 16. Man/Earth Interactions