T: text sections or chapters to be read
LAB EXERCISE DUE (in lab or as directed)
L: lab exercise from lab text
(begin Thursday)
T 1: The Dynamic and Evolving Earth
(off Mon)
T 2: Minerals and Rocks
The Rock Cycle
- The Rock Cycle (Lumen Learning OER)
- The Rock Cycle (Salt Lake CC OER)
- Rock Cycle Interactive (Annenberg Learner resources, be sure to look at the "Rock Cycle Diagram")
- The Rock Cycle (Santa Fe College)
- A Wild Ride Through the Rock Cycle
T 6: Sedimentary Rocks
T 2: Minerals and Rocks
T 5: Rocks, Fossils, & Time
(focus on p. 91-94: Fossils)
- ISGS Geology Resources
- Nova: Ichthyosaurs
- This fossil of a mammal biting a dinosaur captures a death battle's final moments
- Illegal Fossil Export Is More Than an Irritator to the Global South
T 6: Sedimentary Rocks
L 4: p. 142-147
T 3: Plate Tectonics
T 6: Sedimentary Rocks
rock core description and correlation (in lecture)
L3: p. 112-120, parts A, B, C, D
T 3: Plate Tectonics
T 6: Sedimentary Rocks
L4: p. 152-156, ex. 4-1 thru 4-7
(off Mon)
T 3: Plate Tectonics
T 6: Sedimentary Rocks
match rocks to environments of formation (30 pts.)
T 6: Sedimentary Rocks
Facies mapping (15 pts.)
L 1: p. 39-45; ex. 1-2, 1-3, 1-4
L 3: (101-106) ex. 3-2, 3-3, 3-4
Rock-forming Environment Drawings
MID-TERM EXAM Discussion (Exam Due: Tue 3/5)
TIME SCALE EXAM
match rocks to environments of formation (continued)
(off Fri)
TUE: The Archean Eon
- Rethinking the Search for the Origins of Life
- Half of Earth’s Nitrogen May Be Homegrown
- A Simple Recipe for Making the First (Hadean) Continental Crust
- Layered Zone Beneath Coral Sea Suggests Ancient Magma Ocean
- Modeling the Creation of Cratons, Earth’s Secret Keepers
- Cratons, Why Are You Still Here?
TUE: MID-TERM EXAM DUE
THU: T 4: Geologic Time
T 5: Rocks, Fossils & Time
Time and Ordering of Events (15 pts.)
L: ex. 2-1, parts A-F (p. 70-76); 2-9 (p. 86-87)
Radiometric Dating (10 pts.)
L2: ex. 2-5 (p. 80-81)
TUE: Proterozoic Eon
- Is Earth’s Core Rusting?
- New Insights into North America’s Midcontinent Rift
- Modern Microbial Mats Offer Glimpses of Other Times and Places
- A Day in the Life Used to Be 17 Hours
THU: Cambrian & Ordovician
Interpreting local rocks & deposits
TUE: Silurian & Devonian
- The Devonian Trail created by Lauren Frost
THU: Mississippian - Permian
Early Paleozoic fossils (15 pts.)
L: Chapter 4, p. 147-149, 156-198
Handbook of Illinois Stratigraphy & fossil guidebooks (in lab)
TUE: Triassic & Jurassic
THU: Cretaceous
L: Chapter 4, p. 147-149, 156-198
Handbook of Illinois Stratigraphy & fossil guidebooks (in lab)
THU: Paleocene, Eocene, Oligocene, Miocene, Pliocene
Mesozoic & Cenozoic fossils (20 pts.)
L: Chapter 4, p. 147-149, 156-198
Handbook of Illinois Stratigraphy & fossil guidebooks (in lab)
TUE: Pleistocene & Holocene
- Ice-Age Residents of Illinois
- Exotic Rocks...or Erratics are Erratic
- Classification of Quaternary Time and Deposits
- End Moraines: the End of the Glacial Ride
- Evidence for Glaciation
- Glacial Sedimentary Environments and Deposits
- Quaternary Glaciations in Illinois
- Quaternary History in Illinois
THU: T: 8, 9, 12, 13, 15, 18, 19 (patterns of life through time)
FINAL EXAM (due Tue, 5/7, 11:59 pm)
- Take-home portion: due Tuesday, May 7, 11:59 pm
- In-class portion: Tuesday, May 7, 9:00 am