Calendar for Winter Quarter, 2009

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Note: New material is being added and updated each week. Dates are subject to change.

Week
Monday
Wednesday
Friday
Weekly ppts
1

1/5
Introduction to Historical Geology

Lab 1: Geologic Time Scale

1/7
Building Blocks, Energy and Earth Cycles

1/9
Minerals: The Geologic Alphabet

Lab 2a: Earth Materials

Intro ppt

Scientific Method ppt

Energy and Matter ppt

Minerals ppt

2

1/12
Finish Minerals

Rocks: The Language of Geology - Igneous Rocks

Lab 2b: Earth Materials


1/14
Rocks: The Language of Geology - Metamorphic Rocks

Lab 2b (cont.)


1/16
Time Scale Quiz

Rocks: The Language of Geology - Sedimentary Rocks

 

Igneous Rocks ppt

Metamorphic Rocks ppt

3

1/19
No Class
Holiday

1/21
Class Canceled - Work on Rock Report

1/23
Lab 3a: Sedimentary Rocks


 
4

1/26
Sedimentary Structures & Environment

Lab 3b: Sedimentary Structures

 


1/28
Principles of Statigraphy &
Geologic Time: What Came First?

Lab 4a: Stratigraphy

Project 1: Rock Report Due

1/30
Midterm 1
review

Lab 4a: Stratigraphy

Sedimentary Structures and Environments ppt

Stratigraphy ppt

5

2/2
Geologic Time: Telling Time

Lab 4a: Stratigraphy (cont.)

2/4
Origins of the Universe and Solar System

Lab 5: Telling Time

2/6
Lab 4b: Stratigraphy Field Trip

 


Geologic Time and the Age of the Earth ppt
6

2/9
Evolution of the Early Earth

Lab 4b: Stratigraphy FT In class follow up

 


2/11
Origins of Life Lecture
(Meet in N201 for guest lecture)

Origins of Life Video

(2/12 is Darwin Day)

2/13
Hadean Earth & Plate Tectonics

Lab 4/5: Wrap Up

Origins of the Universe and Solar System ppt

Origins of Life ppt

Hadean/Plate tectonics ppt

7

2/16
No Class
Holiday


2/18
Evolution of Life on Earth

2/20
Late Precambrian - Snowballs and Metazoans

Lab 7a: Microfossils

 

 

Evolution and Diversity of Life ppt - Part 1 and Part 2

Life in the Precambrian ppt

8

2/23
Late Precambrian - Snowballs and Metazoans

2/25
Midterm 2
review

Lab 7a: Microfossils (cont)

2/27
Paleozoic: Ice Ages, Extinctions and Constructing Pangea

Lab 7a: Microfossils (cont)

Proterozoic Geology ppt (including ice ages and atmosphere changes)

Paleozoic Geology ppt

9

3/2
Paleozoic: Diversification and Early Oceans

Lab 8: Animal Fossils

3/4
Paleozoic: Moving to Land - Your Inner Fish

Lab 8 (cont)

3/6
Mesozoic: Pangea & Inland Seas

 

Lab 9: Animal Fossils

Early Paleozoic Life ppt

Paleozoic Vertibrates ppt

Plant Evolution ppt

10

3/9
Mesozoic: Pangea & Inland Seas

Lab 9: (cont)

3/11
Lab 10: Animal Fossils 3: Vertebrates
Field Trip to Burke Museum
(May return at 3:00)

3/13
Project 2: Digging Dinos

Mesozoic: Dinosaurs, Plesiosaurs, & Mesosaurs, Oh My!

Lab 9: (cont)

Mesozoic Geology ppt

Mesozoic Life ppt

11

3/16
Cenozoic: Ice Ages, Flowers, and Us

 

3/18
Midterm 3

Lab 9 Wrap Up

Due date Thursday 4 pm:
Midterm 3
Takehome Question

Cenozoic Life and Geology ppt

Geology 103 Homepage / Science Division / BCC Home Page

Monday, March 16, 2009