GEOLOGY
GEOLOGY HISTORICAL 102, section 002
Spring, 2011
Instructor: Dr. Stacey Verardo
[e-mail], 703-993-1045
Class hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 1:30 -2:45pm
Office: David King Hall Room 3037
Office Hour: Thursdays, 11am -noon
Classroom: Enterprise Hall Room 80
AOES Main office : David King Hall, Room 3057, MS: 5F1 phone #[phone]
Text : The Earth through Time, Levin, 9th ed, Wiley
LECTURES
Dates
January 25
January 27
February 1
February 3
February 8
February 10
February 15
February 17
February 22
February 24
March 1
March 3
March 8
March 10
March 15
March 17
March 22
March 24
March 29
March 31
April 5
April 7
April 12
April 14
April 19
April 21
April 26
April 28
May 3
May 5
May 12
Lecture Topic
Chapters
Introduction/current events
1
Principles
2
Time & Geology
3
Rocks & Minerals
4
Sedimentary Archives
5
Life on Earth
6
Quiz & Life on Earth
Plate Tectonics
7
Review
EXAM
Evolution of the Solar System & Archean
8
Early Life
Proterozoic
9
Early Paleozoic History
SPRING BREAK
SPRING BREAK
Late Paleozoic
11
Paleozoic Life
12
Paleozoic Life
Review & Field Trip Handout Due
EXAM
Mesozoic Mesozoic
14
Late Tectonics
13
Middle Mesozoic
Cenozoic Tectonics
15
Cenozoic Life
16
Pleistocene
Human Evolution
17
Future
Review & last day of class
FINAL EXAM 1:30-3:30pm
10
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COURSE INFORMATION
Grading: 3 exams = 60% of final lecture grade (each exam 20% of final grade)
1 quiz = 5% of final lecture grade
1 field trip = 10% of final lecture grade
TOTAL=75% of total geology grade
Lab grade =25% of final grade
Make up exams will NOT be given.
The American Museum of Natural History Field Trip handout is due on Tuesday, March 31,
2011. This will be completed on your own time.
All exams will emphasize material presented in the lectures.
Students are responsible for all material in the textbook readings.
Exams are closed book.
The final grade will be determined by lecture exams, laboratory exams, assignments and a field
trip.
Please bring scantron grading sheets, #2 pencils and a good eraser to each exam.
Attendance at all scheduled lecture and laboratory sections is required to achieve the requisite
level of knowledge in this course.
This course operates under the rules of the Honor Code.