G112 Historical Geology

Department of Geological Sciences
Indiana University
1001 E. 10th Street
Bloomington, IN 47405 USA
http://www.indiana.edu/~geosci/



   

 

The Course

Description
Grading
Syllabus (Revised)

Lectures

Lecture 1 (8 Jan)
Lecture 2 (11 Jan)
Lecture 3 (16 Jan)
Lecture 4 (18 Jan)
Lecture 5 (23 Jan)
Lecture 6 (25 Jan)
Lecture 7 (30 Jan)
Lecture 8 (1 Feb)
Lecture 9 (6 Feb)
Midterm I (8 Feb)
Snow Day (12 Feb)
Lecture 10 (15 Feb)
Lecture 11 (20 Feb)
Lecture 12 (22 Feb)
Lecture 13 (27 Feb)
Lecture 14 (1 Mar)
Lecture 15 (6 Mar)
Midterm II (8 Mar)
SPRING BREAK
Lecture 16 (19 Mar)
Lecture 17 (22 Mar)
Lecture 18 (27 Mar)
Lecture 19 (29 Mar)
Lecture 20 (3 Apr)
Lecture 21 (5 Apr)
Lecture 22 (17 Apr)
Lecture 23 (19 Apr)
Lecture 24 (24 Apr)
Lecture 25 (26 Apr)

Labs

Lab 1: Rocks
Lab 2: Maps
Lab 3: Ig. & Meta.
Lab 4: Sed. Rocks
Lab 5: Structures
Lab 6: Cancelled
Lab 7: Plants
Lab 8: Vertebrates
Lab 9: Campus Tour
Lab 10: Paleozoic Fossils 1
Lab 11: Paleozoic Fossils 2
Lab 12: Stobo Bioherm Trip
Lab 13: Mesozoic Fossil


Mammoth

Mammoth painting from Yalden, 1999 The History of British Mammals.
(c) 1999, P Barrett and D Yalden.

 

Species Reports

The assignment
Guide to citing published work
Sample report on Mammuthus primigenius

Worth 30% of final grade

Information about copyright
http://www.copyright.iupui.edu/quickguide.htm
http://www.unc.edu/%7Eunclng/public-d.htm

 

Library Resources

G112 E-reserves (get password from Dr Polly)
G112 Library Course Page

Links

The University of California Museum of Paleontology
The Paleontology Portal
Understanding Evolution
Historical Geology from Geology.com

Maps

Google Earth
Paleomap Project (plate tectonic maps)
Indiana Geological Survey GIS maps

Databases

MioMap (Miocene of North America)
FaunMap (Late Pleistocene of North America)
Paleobiology Database (fossils from everywhere)
NOW (Neogene mammals of Europe)


(c) 2006, P David Polly. Page design inspired by the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).