Earth Sciences 402:
Introduction to Earth History
Course Documents

 

Documents for Earth Sciences 402 - Earth History are going to be stored here, including some of the images we use in class, and review sheets for our exams. We encourage our students to use this resource for out-of-class review. Follow links below.

Content of this page will be updated regularly throughout the semester.


· Interior Structure of Earth

· Silicon Tetrahedron

· Crystal Structure of Silicate Minerals

· Sedimentary Rock Classification

· Weathering Flow Chart

· Grain Size and Flow Velocity Diagram

· Fossil Evidence of Continental Drift

· Sea Floor Spreading and Paleomagnetics

· Different Kinds of Stress

· Types of Folds (from Levin)

· Types of Faults (from Levin)

· **EXAM 1 Review Sheet**

· Embryological evidence for evolution

· Greenhouse effect

· Timeline for formation of Earth

· Taconic Collision

· Ron Blakeleys web page with paleogeographic reconstructions

· Three Evolutionary Faunas

· Permo-Triassic Boundary Extinction

· **EXAM 2 Review Sheet**

· Lab 10 Paleogeographic Reconstruction Stratigraphic Columns

· Tetrapod Cladogram

· Amniote Skull Types

· Phylogeny of Synapsids and Mammals

· Evolution of mammalian ear and jaw

· Waking the Baby Mammoth Web Site

· Glacier history and oxygen isotopes in marine sediments

· Brittle and ductile deformation zones in glacier

· Milankovich cycles

· Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) website

· **Exam 3 Review Sheet**

 

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