GEOL 210-001, 3 credits
TR 9:30-10:45 in Owens 202
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Instructor: Dr. Diana Boyer Office: Sims 212B
e-mail: boyerd@winthrop.edu Phone: 803-323-4949
Office hours: Tues 2-3pm, Wed 9:30-11, and by appointment
Text: Earth
System History, 2009, Steven Stanley, Freeman, NY, 567p. 4th
edition-required
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Tentative schedule of topics* |
Reading |
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Aug 22 |
Introduction to time and rocks |
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Aug 24 |
Geologic time, plate tectonics |
Chap 1 |
Why study hist.
geology? |
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Aug 29 |
Rocks and minerals |
Chap 2 |
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Aug 31 |
Period paper assign, Fossils and life |
Chap 3 |
Writing assign (#1) |
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Sep 5 |
Diversity of life |
Chap 3 |
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Sep 7 |
Evolution |
Chap 3, 7 |
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Sep 12 |
Sedimentary environments |
Chap 5 |
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Sep 14 |
Stratigraphy and time |
Chap 6 |
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Sep 19 |
Exam 1 |
Chap 1-7 |
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Sep 21 |
Plate tectonics
& mountain building |
Chap 9-10 |
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Sep 26 |
In class paper
presentations |
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Sep 28 |
Formation of Earth, Hadean |
Chap 11 |
Period paper (#2) |
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Oct 3 |
Proterozoic |
Chap 12 |
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Oct 5 |
Camb-Ordovician |
Chap 13 |
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Oct 10 |
Silurian-Devonian |
Chap 14 |
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Oct 12 |
Carboniferous |
Chap 15 |
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Oct 17 |
Fall Break |
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Oct 19 |
Permian, Triassic |
Chap 15-16 |
Writing assign (#3) |
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Oct 24 |
No Class GSA |
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Oct 26 |
Exam 2 |
Chap 11-16 |
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Oct 31 |
Triassic |
Chap 16 |
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Nov 2 |
Jurassic |
Chap 17 |
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Nov 7 |
Cretaceous |
Chap 17 |
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Nov 9 |
Cretaceous |
Chap 17 |
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Nov 14 |
Paleogene |
Chap 18 |
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Nov 16 |
Neogene |
Chap 19 |
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Nov 21 |
Exam 3 |
Chap 16-19 |
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Nov 23 |
Thanksgiving |
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Nov 28 |
Holocene |
Chap 20 |
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Nov 30 |
Review |
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Dec 8 |
Final Exam Friday 11:30 am |
All material |
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*subject to change based on how fast we move through the material