Spring
'08 Earth
Environments and Life Through Time Lab Schedule
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)