SPRING 2013
GEOL 102 – Plate Tectonics and Earth Evolution
1021 HN
Lecture: Wednesday: lecture: 17:35- 21:10
Laboratory: Wednesday: 20:20- 21:10
Instructor:
Email:
Office:
Telephone:
Office hours:
Dr. Teodosia Manecan
[email protected] or [email protected]
1044HN
212-772-5413
Geology 102 is the second course in geology offered to non-geology majors at Hunter
College. It is a four credit five hour course composed of three hours of lecture and two
hours of lab each week.
This course is designed to familiarize you with the main concepts used in deciphering and
interpreting earth history giving you an outline of the evolution of our planet from the
spatial and temporal prospective:
Geological time, geological principles and earth science history
Earth materials as recorders of past geologic processes
Depositional environments and sedimentary rock record, igneous and metamorphic
geologic environments and their rock records
Concept of evolution: evolution of solar system, planet earth, plate tectonics and life
on earth
Origin of the universe, Big Bang- Milky Way Galaxy-solar nebula-solar system-earth
Life on earth and the fossil record
Plate tectonics as a unifying theory, result of long time endeavor of earth scientists
Precambrian history in rock and time units; early structural evolution of earth
Origin of life and Precambrian life
Paleozoic life; Paleozoic history and tectonics;
Mesozoic life; Mesozoic history and tectonics
Cenozoic life; Cenozoic history and tectonics
Course Prerequisites: Geology 101 or equivalent
Required Textbooks:
R. Wicander, J.S Monroe: Historical Geology: Evolution of Earth and Life Through Time,
6th Edition, Brooks/Cole ISBN: 0-945-56007-3.
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P = Prothero text
W = Wicander text
LECTURE SYLLABUS
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TITLE
01/30/13 Dynamic and evolving earth
Minerals and rocks
02/6/13
Plate tectonics
Rocks, fossils and time
02/13/13 Rocks, fossils and time sedimentary
rocks archives of earth history
02/20/13 Evolution – the theory and its
supporting evidence
02/27/13 Review chapter 1-7
03/06/13 Exam 1
Earth origin. Hadean heat within
02/20/13 Archean earth and life
Proterozoic earth and life
02/27/13 Review proterozoic
Life from the sea
04/03/13 Exam 2:test on proterozoic
Early paleozoic history
04/10/13 Late paleozoic
Paleozoic life invertebrates and
vertebrates
04/17/13 Review paleozoic
Mesozoic earth history
04/23/13 Exam3: test on paleozoic
Life of mesozoic era
04/30/13 Cenozoic earth history pg+ng
Cenozoic history pleist. Hollocene
05/07/13 Life in cenozoic and human
evolution
05/14/13 Review for the final
TBA
EXAM 4
BOOKS
Ch 1
Ch2
Ch3
CH4
Ch 5
Ch6
Ch 7
HOMEWORK
Q1-10
Ch-1-7
Review
questions
Q 41-50
paper
Ch 8
Ch 8-9
Q 11-20
Q 21-30
Q 30-40
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Paper
Q 51-60
Q 61-80
Q 81-90
Q 90-100
Q 100-110
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Grading:
Homework
Exam 1
Exam 2
Exam 3
Exam 4
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Policy on Incomplete (IN) and Credit/No-Credit (CR/NC) grades
A final grade of IN (incomplete) will not be given except under the most extraordinary, and
documented, circumstances. Only students who have completed ALL course requirements
including all writing/lab assignments and exams will be eligible for a final grade of CR/NC.
LAB SYLLABUS
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02/06/13
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Relative dating
Absolute dating
Analysis of sedimentary rocks
Sedimentary rocks and
Geologic environment of deposition
Test
Stratigraphy
Physical correlation
Facies relationship,
Sea level change
Fossils and fossilization
Classification of life. Evolution evidence
Paleozoic fossils
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04/03/13 Mesozoic fossils
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04/10/13 Mesozoic fossils
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04/17/13 Cenozoic Fossils and Review
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04/23/13 AMNH Trip - Hall of Human Evolution
14 04/30/13 Trip for glaciation
15 05/07/13 Test on fossils
LAB GRADING
Quiz 1
Quiz 2
Final
Lab Book
AMNH Field Note Book
AMNH Report
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HOMEWORK
Exercises L1
Exercises L2
Exercises L3
Ex 4+Review
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Ex 5
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Notebook
Work
Charts in
Notebook
Charts in
Notebook.
Charts in
Notebook
Charts in
Notebook
Field
Notebook
Field Notebook
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Ex 6
Ex 7
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A final word on grading:
Your lecture grade counts as 50% of your final total grade and your total lab grade counts
as 50% of your final grade
Hunter College Statement on Academic Integrity
Hunter College regards acts of academic dishonesty (e.g., plagiarism, cheating on
examinations, obtaining unfair advantage, and falsification of records and official
documents) as serious offenses against the values of intellectual honesty. The College is
committed to enforcing the CUNY Policy on Academic Integrity and will pursue cases of
academic dishonesty according to the Hunter College Academic Integrity Procedures.”
ADA Policy
In compliance with the American Disability Act of 1990 (ADA) and with Section 504 of the
Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Hunter College is committed to ensuring educational parity and
accommodations for all students with documented disabilities and/or medical conditions.
It is recommended that all students with documented disabilities (Emotional, Medical,
Physical, and/or Learning) consult the Office of Accessibility, located in Room E1214B, to
secure necessary academic accommodations For further information and assistance, please
call: (212) 772- 4857 or (212) 650-3230
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