C.W. Post
Department of Earth and Environmental Science
 

Honors Core

History of the Earth Laboratory

GLY 302 - Spring 2007


 

 

Instructor:

Prof. Vic DiVenere

 

Office:

Pell Hall 229C (knock vigorously on 227)

 

Office Hours:

11:00-12:00 and 2:00 to 4:00 Tuesdays or by arrangement

 

Phone:

299-2034

 

Email:

divenere@liu.edu

 

 

 

Department of Earth and Environmental Science:

 

Room 133 Life Science, 299-2318

 

     

Lab Manual:

Historical Geology: Interpretations and Applications

 

 

Jon M. Poort and Roseann J. Carlson, 6th ed.

 

     

Grading:

Lab Notebook, attendance, and effort

50%

 

Lab Exams

50%

 

Students will keep a notebook of all lab exercises.  The notebooks will be turned in for a grade on the day of the lab exams.  They must be neat and complete.  Attendance will be checked. Students with a valid excuse may make up one lab during office hours.  One additional lab may be missed without penalty.  However, students are responsible for all lab material, even on labs that are missed and not made up, and must be able to show proficiency on the lab exams.

 

I will check to see how you are doing in each lab, but you are responsible for making sure that you understand all of the lab material before you walk out of the classroom.  Ask questions if you don't understand something.  It will probably come up on a lab exam.

 

 

Planned Laboratory Schedule

 

Thursday

Laboratory Exercise

Lab Chapter

Jan 25

Sedimentary Environments

1 & 3

Feb 1

Physical Stratigraphy and Correlation

3

Feb 8

Order of Geologic Events and

2

Feb 15

Radiometric Dating

2

Feb 22

Introduction to Fossils

4

Mar 1

Lab Midterm

 

Mar 8

Fossils: Sponges and Corals

4

Mar 15

Fossils: Bryozoans, Brachiopods, Crinoids

4

Mar 22

Fossils: Echinoids and Mollusks

4

Mar 29

Introduction to Geologic Maps           No Lab: Spring Break

 

Apr 5

           No Lab: Spring Break

5

Apr 12

Geologic Maps: Eastern U.S. Geologic Features

5

Apr 19

Geologic Maps:  Western Cordillera

5

Apr 26

Lab Final