EARTH HISTORY- GEOLOGY 106

Earth History Geology 106 Syllabus                Fall 2001

Class 1: Class 1: Main Page

                                Age of Earth

                                Oldest Rocks

                                Oldest Minerals

 

Class 2:  Stratigraphic Principles and Geologic Time                          Grand Canyon

                                                Stratigraphic Laws

Class 3:   Hadean- Archean

                                                Oldest Ophiolite

                                                Early Tectonics

                                                Origin of Life

Class 4:                Proterozoic                                                                          Grand Canyon

                                                Multicellular Life                                                  Wisconsin

                                                Extinction                                                              Morocco

                                                Snowball Earth

                                                Supercontinent Cycle

                                                Wisconsin Geology                                   

Class 5:                Cambrian Explosion

                                                Supercontinent Rifting

                                                Shelled Marine Invertebrates

                                                Wisconsin Geology

Class 6:  Early Paleozoic                                                                               Grand Canyon

                                                Eustasy                                                                  Wisconsin

                                                Taconic Orogeny

                                                Silurian Reefs

                                                Wisconsin Geology

                                                Acadian Orogeny

Class 7:  Late Paleozoic                                                                                               Guadalupe Mtns

                                                Evolution of Amphibians and Reptiles                Grand Canyon

                                                Alleghenian Orogeny

                                                Pangea

                                                Evolution of Land Plants

Class 8:  Extinction Events: Proterozoic, Ordovician, Devonian and Permian

Class 9: Triassic

                                                Evolution of Dinosaurs

                                                Rifting of Pangea

Class 10: Jurassic

                                                Evolution of Flowers

Class 11: Cretaceous                                                                            Big Bend Texas

                                                Extinction

Class 12: Cenozoic                                                                              Badlands

Class 13: Overview

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