Spring '08 Earth Environments and Life Through Time Lab Schedule

Jan 15 & 17:   characteristics of modern plate boundaries

Jan 22 & 24:  rocks record ancient environments

Jan 29 & Jan 31 introduction to the major fossil taxa  (chapter 3)

Feb 5 & 7 sedimentary environments (chapter 5);
introduction to facies maps
the powerpoint on "depositional environments" is here

Feb 12 &15 introduction to lithostratigraphy and stratigraphic columns
power poi4t on stratigraphy is here

Feb 19 & 21 relative age exercises; radiometric dating
pdf on unconformities is here

Feb 26 & Feb 28 the geologic record of ancient plate boundaries
http://www.uvm.edu/~cmehrten/courses/earthhist/PlateBoundaries I.ppt
and  http://www.uvm.edu/~cmehrten/courses/earthhist/PlateBoundaries II.ppt

March 4 & 6  no lab....Town Meeting Day

March 11 & 13 spring break

March 18 & 20:  geologic maps:  for help in visualizing 3D geologic structures, visit:
http://reynolds.asu.edu/blocks/mainmenu.htm

March 25 & 27: recognizing terranes

April 1 & 3:  recognizing fossil populations; example evolutionary lineages

April 8 & 10   make-up lab on cladistics for those not going to AMNH field trip

April 15 & 17  Evolution of the Caminalcules

April 22 & 24  lectures in lab:  the strange world that was the Precambrian (the Archean  link is here
the Proterozoic link is here)