Historical Geology GEOS 116 - Spring 2007

Lecture Notes (Lecture Outlines)


Topic

Time and Rates of Change
Science and Historical Geology
Sedimentary Rocks
Evolution
Interpreting Ancient Environments
Relative Time and Stratigraphy
Age Relations and Unconformities
Numerical Dating of Earth
Mountain Building and Drifting Continents

Origin and Evolution of Earth
Early Life
Fossils
Early Paleozoic

Middle Paleozoic
Late Paleozoic
The Mesozoic

Fossils and Time

Fossils and Environments

Vertebrate fossils

The Cenozoic