This site was developed to be used as a study guide for students taking
Historical Geology 3370-102, which is offered during the spring semester.
This is an introductory level course with Physical Geology as a prerequisite.
The majority of the students are either geology majors or secondary and
primary education majors.
The lecture presentations are an outline of the lectures with copies of
most of the figures I show in class. The presentations were originally
developed in 1996 using Astound, and were converted to WWW format in 1998.
These pages were created with a Power Macintosh 6100/60. I am not proficient
in HTML, as a matter of fact my vocabulary consist of less than 1 dozen
commands. Therefore, you will not find any fancy spinning hammers on this
site. Because the lecture files contain a number of images they may take
a long time to down load. The lecture files range in size from 70 to 800
K and average 370 K. Most of the photos came from Kodak Photo-CD's. I sharpened
the images and adjusted the colors using a very low cost program, Expert
Color Paint for Macintosh. Most of the diagrams were scanned on a flat
bed scanner, I used a variety of programs to clean up the images, my favorites
being Canvas 3.0 and Color paint. To minimize the size of the images, prior
to converting them to gif files, the resolution was converted to 72 dpi
and they were sized so as to be less than 6 inches wide. The photos were
converted to 8 bit (256 colors) and most of the diagrams were converted
to 4 bit (16 colors).
The original sources of the images are listed below. Images not listed
are original images by the author (A. Foos).
Bergstrom, S. M., W. D. Huff, M. R. Satlzmann, D. R. Kolata and S. A. Leslie, 2004, The greatest volcanic ash falls in the Phanerozoic: Trans-Atlantic relationships of the Ordovician Millbrig and Kinnekulle K-Bentonites. The Sedimentary Record, V. 2, No. 4, p. 4-8.
upal1o.jpg, upal1p.jpg
Cooper, J. D., R. H. Miller, and P. Patterson, 1990, A trip through
time-Principles of Historical Geology , 2nd Ed., Merrill Pub. 541p.
upal1d.gif, upal1k.gif, cen1b.gif, cen2h.gif, cen3g.gif,
Fichter, L. S., and D. J. Poche, 1993, Ancient environments and the
interpretation of geologic history. 2nd Ed. , MacMillan Pub. Co. NY,
NY
plate1e.gif, plate2h.gif, plate2i.gif, plate3g.gif, plate3i.gif, plate3j.gif,
plate3k.gif, plate3l.gif, plate4e.gif, plate4f.gif, plate4g.gif, plate4h.gif,
plate4i.gif, plate5a.gif, plate5c.gif, plate5d.gif, plate5f.gif
Harms, J> S., J. B. Southland, Spearing, D. R., and R. G. Walker,
1975, Depositional environments as interpreted from primary sedimentary
structures and stratigraphic sequences . SEPM short course #2, Tulsa
OK, 161 p.
sedrx4d.gif, sedrx4e.gif,
Levin, H.L., 1991, The Earth Through Time, 4th Edition , Saunders
College Publishing, Fort Worth Tx
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lpal2h.gif, lpal2j.gif, lpal2l.gif, lpal2m.gif, upal1a.gif, upal1e.gif,
upal1i.gif, upal1j.gif, cen2a.gif, cen2c.gif
Lewis, D. W., 1984, Practical Sedimentology , Hutchinson Ross
Pub. Co.
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Ohio Department of Natural Resources
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Renton, 1994, Astound Presentation to accompany Physical Geology,
West Publishing Company
time2h.gif, time3a.gif, plate1a.gif, plate2b.gif, plate2d.gif, plate2e.gif,
plate2f.gif, plate2g.gif, plate5e.gif, upal1h.gif, cen3a.gif,
UTA Geosociety, 1995, Paleomap Project , Department of Geology,
The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington Texas, 76019
lpal2g.gif, lpal2i.gif, lpal2k.gif, upal1b.gif, upal1c.gif, upal1f.gif
Wicander R. and J. S. Monroe, 1993, Historical Geology; Evolution
of the Earth and Life Through Time 2nd Ed. , West Pub. Co., 640p.
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time4a.gif, time4d.gif, sedrx5g.gif, sedrx7a.gif, envir1c.gif, envir1g.gif,
envir1j.gif, paleo1e.gif, paleo1f.gif, paleo1g.gif, paleo1h.gif, paleo1i.gif,
paleo1k.gif, paleo1p.gif, plate3a.gif, plate3b.gif, plate3d.gif, plate3e.gif,
plate3f.gif, plate3h.gif, plate5b.gif, plate6c.gif, lpal1d.gif, lpal2b.gif,
lpal2c.gif, upal1n.gif, upal1o.gif, meso1a.gif, meso1b.gif, meso1c.gif,
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cen3e.gif, cen3f.gif, cen3h.gif