DATE: TOPICS TEXT READINGS

August

30 Introduction Ch. 1

September

1 Stratigraphic principles Ch. 1

6 Sedimentary environments and paleogeography Ch. 2, 3

8 Lab exercise 1 – stratigraphy and sedimentary environments

13 The fossil record Ch. 4

15 The geologic timescale Ch. 1

20 Structure of the Earth, orogenesis, Ch. 5

continental growth by accretion

22 EXAM I

27 Precambrian geology Ch. 6, 7

29 Early life Ch. 6, 7

October

4 Lab exercise 2 – Precambrian Life

6 Early Paleozoic geology I Ch. 8

11 Early Paleozoic geology II Ch. 8

13 Lab exercise 3 - Building Bodies (video)

18 Lab exercise 4 - Early Paleozoic life Ch. 10

20 EXAM II

25 Late Paleozoic geology I Ch. 9

27 Late Paleozoic geology II Ch. 9

November

1 Lab exercise 5 - Late Paleozoic life Ch. 10

3 Early Mesozoic geology Ch. 11

8 Late Mesozoic geology Ch. 11

10 Mesozoic life Ch. 12

15 Lab exercise 6 - Mesozoic life Ch. 12

17 EXAM III

19 Field Trip (Saturday)

22 Cenozoic geology I Ch. 13

24 THANKSGIVING - No classes

29 Cenozoic geology II Ch. 13

December

1 Lab exercise 7 - Cenozoic life Ch. 14

6 Human origins (Projects due in class) Ch. 15

8 Review

15 Thursday, 15th, 11-12, EXAM IV