Reading assignments for Test 1 from Edition 8 (current) of your textbook IN ADDITION TO MATERIAL

COVERED IN CLASS, YOU ARE ALSO RESPONSIBLE FOR BOLD-FACED TERMS

Early Geologists , pp. 16-20 up to and including Charles Lyell - see also Figs 2-11 and 2-12

A Scale of Geologic Time, pp. 28-32 - USE Geological Timescale quiz - see LINKS COURSE WEB PAGE TO TEST YOURSELF!

http://www.ndsu.edu/pubweb/~ashworth/webpages/g106/GeoTime/GeoTimeDrill.html

Earth's Three Great Rock Families, p. 55

Igneous Rocks - fire formed, p. 56

The Sedimentary Archives, 77-86

Size and sorting of clastic grains, pp. 87-89, see also Fig. 5-13

Organizing strata to solve geologic problems, facies, pp. 98-103

Correlation and types of unconformities, pp. 103-107, See Fig. 5- 40

Fossils: Surviving records of past life, pp 120- 124

Fossils and Stratigraphy, pp.139 - 143

Reading assignments for Test 2 ( there will also be questions from the Geologic Time Scale p. 29 - Fig. 3-1 - and you will be expected to work out a cross-cutting relationship diagram) (see Fig. 2-11, p. 20).

Radioactivity provides a way to date rocks, pp.33 - 43

How old is the Earth? pp.32 - 33, & p.43

Plate Tectonics underlies all Earth's History, pp.161 - 205

Meteorites pp. 210-212

Darwin and Evolution, pp. 7-8, 20-21, 128-130

Reading assignment for Test 3 (there will also be questions from the Geologic Time Scale p. 29 - Fig. 3-1)

Archean Eon, pp. 220-229

Proterozoic Eon, pp 243-254

Archean fossils, pp 236-240

The origin of life, pp 230-236

Proterozoic fossils, pp 255-264

READING assignments for Test 4 (there will also be questions from the Geologic Time Scale p. 29 - Fig. 3-1)

Early Paleozoic events, pp. 267-276

Life of the Paleozoic, Burgess Shale, etc., pp. 327-353

Cambrian fossils, pp. 335, 340, 346-349.

The rise of the fishes, pp. 354-360 (include the conodonts)

Dynamic Events in the East, pp 281-290

Late Paleozoic events, pp 295-316

Advent of the Vertebrates, Carboniferous coal swamp forests, Permian extiunction, pp. 351-371

READING assignments for Test 5 (there will also be questions from the Geologic Time Scale p. 29 - Fig. 3-1)

The break-up pf Pangea, the Mesozoic in eastern and western North America, pp 373-396

Mesozoic Vertebrates, pp. 415-433

Late Cretaceous Castrophe, 443-448

Tectonics and Erosion in the Rockies, pp. 455-470

Cenozoic vertebrates, pp. 496-522

Evolution of the horse, pp. 134-137

READING assignments for Final, MONDAY, MAY 11, 1:00 - 3:00 P.M. (Ten of the 50 questions on the final will be from this part of the course)

Ice age mammals and their demise pp. 518-522

Big Freeze - the Pleistocene Ice Age, pp. 473 - 484

Our ancestors, pp. 525-546