Bulletin Board

Historical Geology

Class Announcements, Questions, Answers, Comments

Please address questions or comments to be included on this page to Dr. Annabelle Foos or send e-mail to AFOOS@uakron.edu

• Heather has graded all your homework and lab assignments with the exception of your essay papers. They are available in the GRC.
  
• Good luck on your finals.
  

• Homework Assignment: Due 5/6/2005; Read “11.pdf” and “26.pdf” and answer the questions provided on the handout Homework 7
  

• Final Essay: Due 5/6/05; Write an essay on one of the following three topics:
  

  1. After watching the video “Tibet, Where Continents Collide” write a 1-2 page essay (preferably typed) describing the sequence of events that formed the Himalayan Mountains and Tibetan Plateau. Your essay should include the major events and the evidence (describe the rocks) for these events.

  2. After reading “Birth of the Mountains-The geologic Story of the Southern Appalachian Mountains.” (Clark, 2002; 02.pdf; http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/birth/ ) write a 1-2 page essay (preferably typed) describing the sequence of events that formed the Appalachian Mountains. Your essay should include the major events and the evidence (describe the rocks) for these events. (You may also watch the video “The Southern Appalachians: A Changing World” available in the GRC.)

  3. Use reading material available on your Historical CD and/or the web to write a 1-2 page essay on how teaching about the Creationism/Intelligent Design versus Evolution controversy can be used to illustrate to students the “Nature of Science”

  24.pdf; 25.pdf; 27.pdf; 39.pdf on your CD
  Teaching About Evolution and the Nature of Science http://www.nap.edu/catalog/5787.html
  Science and Creationism: A View from the National Academy of Sciences, Second Edition http://www.nap.edu/catalog/6024.html
  

• Homework Assignment: Due 4/27/2005; Read “37.pdf” and “38.pdf” and answer the questions provided on the handout Homework 6
  
• Lab Assignment: Due 4/26 or 4/27; Answer the questions on Map C. p. 15-8 to 9 of Lab 15 in your manual
  

• Homework Assignment: Due 4/22/05; Watch the video AAPG Films: The Foreland Basin and answer the questions on the handout Foreland Basin
  
• Lab Assignment: Due 4/19 or 4/21; Complete the Geology of Ohio Exercise PreLab 10
  

• Today (Friday, April 8) the geology department is hosting a talk  on “Climate Instability: Sun, Sea, and Snow” by Dr. Jerry McManus, the JOI/USACC Distinguished Lecturer from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Massachusetts. The talk is open to the public and will be in CRH 120 at 3:30. I will give extra credit points to anyone in the class that attends.

• Next Thursday (April 4th) there will be a talk by Dr. Patricia Kelly titled “Evolution and Creation: Conflicting or Compatible?” at the College of Wooster. The talk is at 8:00 PM in Wishart Hall, Lean Lecture Room. If you are interested in attending and need transportation please contact Dr. Park (lepark@uakron.edu, CRH 63, X-7633) who will be taking a departmental van to Wooster, departing at 7:00 PM.  I will give extra credit points to anyone in the class that attends.

• Homework Assignment: Due 4/15/2005; Read “34.pdf” and “35.pdf” and answer the questions provided on the handout Homework 5
  

• There has been a change in the lab schedule. Next week (4/12 and 4/14) you will do lab #11 Geologic Maps (Exercise 15) and the following week (4/19 and 4/21) we will have our field trip.
  
• Lab Assignment: Due 4/12 or 4/14; Read the introductory material to Lab 15 and answer the questions on Map B. p. 15-7 to 8, 15-20 to 21.
  

• Video: Planet of Life: The Birth of Earth, Worksheet due 4/11/2005, Homework 5
  

• Homework Assignment: Due 4/4/2005; Read the assigned article and answer the questions on the handout.Homework 4
  The reading assignment is also available on the web at This Dynamic Earth
  

• Quiz: You will have a quiz on Mon. March 21, 2005 on Plate Tectonics Review. To prepare for the quiz go through the Plate Tectonics CD available in the GRC. The questions will be taken directly from the CD-ROM.
  

• Video: The Gene, Worksheet due 3/18/2005, copies of the video and worksheet are available in the GRC CRH 214 Homework 4
  

• Lab Assignment: Due 3/22 or 3/24; The pre-lab assignment for lab 7 is to Complete the internet exercise on Mesozoic Biota (Lab Manual Exercise 12)
  

• Homework Assignment: Due 3/11/2005; Read the assigned articles and answer the questions on the handout.Homework 3
  
• Lab Assignment: Due 3/8 or 3/10; Pre-lab 7
  
• Historical Geology Midterm Reviews:
  
  Mon. 3/7/05 @ 11:00-12:00
  Thur. 3/10/05 @ 9:00-10:00
  The Review will be in room 111A
  If you have questions email me at ha1@uakron.edu
  Good luck!
  Heather
  

• This Friday the geology department is hosting a talk by a sedimentary geologist on the depositional environment at Olduvai Gorge. The talk is open to the public. I will give extra credit points to anyone in the class that attends.
  Friday, February 18, 3:30 pm
  AWG-ConocoPhillips Distinguished Lecture
  The harsh environment of early hominins, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
  Gail M. Ashley, Rutgers University, New Jersey
  
• The first test is this Friday 2/11/05. It will be a mix of multiple choice, fill in the blank, matching, definitions and essay questions.
  
• Reminder: lab does not meet next week 2/22 or 2/24.
  
• Lab Assignment: Due 3/1 or 3/3; The pre-lab assignment for lab 6 is to is to read the introductory material for Lab Exercise 8 in lab manual and complete Supplemental Internet Exercises (p.8-8 to 8-10, Questions 5-9). A revised set of links for the internet exercise is located under internet exercises on the Historical geology Web page at: Pre-lab 6
  
• Lab Assignment: Due 2/15 or 2/17; Pre-lab 5
  

• Up coming Quiz: You will have a quiz on the geologic time scale sometime during the week of 2/7-2/11. Study the time scale. Geologic Time Scale
  You should know all the eons, eras, periods and epochs and their relative order. You should know the era each period belongs in and the following dates: Mesozoic-Cenozoic Boundary (66 myrs); Paleozoic-Mesozoic Boundary (245 myrs.) Precambrian-Cambrian Boundary (544 myrs)
  
• Lab Assignment (Prelab 4): Due 2/8 or 2/10; Lab Manual Exercise 1 Read Introduction material (p. 1-1 to 1-10) and answer questions 1A & B, p. 1-11 to 1-12

• The exam dates on the syllabus I handed out on the 1st day of class are incorrect. The correct dates are as follows:
  Exam Dates:
  Test #1 - Friday, February 18
  Test #2 - Wednesday, April 8
  Test #3 - Friday, May 13 10:00-11:55 AM
  

• Homework Assignment: Due 2/2/2005; Read, 39.PDF, “Radiometric Dating,” and answer the questions provided on the handout Homework 2
  
• Lab Assignment: Due 2/1 or 3; Pre-lab 3
  

• Reading Assignment: Read the article by Oldenquist, A. J., 2000 titled “Bridge the Creation-evolution gap,” (file 24.PDF on your CD) for class on Friday.
  
• Homework Assignment: Due 1/26/2005; Read the assigned articles and answer the questions on the handout.Homework 1
  
• Lab Assignment: Due 1/25 or 27; Pre-lab 2
  
  

• There is no textbook for the course this year, however you will need to purchase a lab manual. I will be providing you with a CD that has reading material from a variety of sources.
  
• Historical Geology will build on the material you learned in Physical Geology, therefore, I recommend that you obtain a Physical Geology textbook as a reference text. For those of you who do not have a Physical Geology text you may want to look for a cheep Physical Geology, Earth Science or Historical Geology text at a used bookstore.,br>