GLY 529 Syllabus

GLY 29 / ERS 29 Syllabus

Final Exam Review Topics (2008)

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Class Lecture Outlines

Related Notes

Geologic Timescale
Climate History Overview

Climate System Overview

Climate Archives, Proxies, & Models

Sedimentary Environments
Radiometric Dating

Global Chemical Cycles:
The Carbon Cycle, Oxygen and Carbon Isotopes

The Carbon Cycle and Climate
Stable Isotopes

Precambrian Climate:
Faint Young Sun, Snowball Earth

Snowball Earth

Plate Tectonics and Climate

Continental Drift to Seafloor Spreading
Midocean Ridge Volcanism
Subduction Zone Volcanic Arcs

Paleozoic Climate:
Late Ordovician Glaciation, Late Paleozoic Glaciation

Paleozoic Evolution
Paleozoic Geology

Greenhouse Climate

Cretaceous Greenhouse to Cenozoic Ice Ages

From the Greenhouse to the Icehouse

Orbital Scale Variations - The Ice Ages

Glaciers

Orbital Control of Monsoons and Greenhouse Gases

Last Glacial Max, Deglacial, and Postglacial Climate

Millenial Climate Oscillations and
Preindustrial Climate

Climate Change During the Last 1000 Years and Since the 1800s

See also: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Causes and Future of Global Warming

See also: U.S. Global Climate Change Research Program
Impact Assessment

Geologic Timescale

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Announcements:   

Remember that article must be approved by this coming Tuesday, 11/10.
Please turn in on a sheet of paper a proper bibliographic listing of the 2 articles that I have approved.

11/6/09 - Some of the notes (Orbital Scale through Postglacial, highlighted above) have been reorganized and updated. Updated slide presentations for these have been posted on WebCT. Quiz 4 will soon be posted on WebCT and will be available through midnight, Nov 15th.

10/17/09 - Quiz 3 was posted on 10/15 and will be available to start until about a half hour before the midterm exam begins this coming Tuesday 10/20.

10/9/09 - Quiz 2 was posted on 10/7 and will be available until 10/14, 11:59 PM.
The slide show for Cretaceous Greenhouse Climate (this past week's lecture) is now updated on WebCT.
Bring all of your questions 10/13 that you would like to review for the exam (10/20).
After reviewing we will cover From the Greenhouse to the Icehouse and possibly also some of Orbital Scale Variations and the Cenozoic Ice Ages. Part or all of the new material will be on the midterm.

10/2/09 - I have updated most of the lecture notes through last week's lecture on plate tectonics and climate and Paleozoic climate.
I have added Related Notes on volcanism at midocean ridges and subduction zones as well as a climate history overview.
I have also updated the classroom slide presentations through Paleozoic climate on WebCT.
Watch for the next quiz which may be posted before Tuesday's class.
This coming Tuesday, Oct. 6, I will cover Greenhouse Climate and possibly Descent to the Icehouse.

9/23/09 - As announced in class, Quiz 1 is available on WebCT until midnight Sunday, Sept. 27.
Next Tuesday, Sept. 29, I hope to cover continental drift &continental flooding, late Ordovician glaciation, and the late Paleozoic Gondwana glaciations

9/14/09 - Make sure to log into WebCT to review the classroom slide presentations and to be ready to do so when the first quiz is released.