Reading assignments for Test 1 from Edition 7 of your textbook IN ADDITION TO MATERIAL

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

The Founders of Historical Geology, pp. 3-11 up to and including Charles Lyell - see alsdo Figs 1-11 and 1-12

The Standard Geological Time Scale, pp. 14-20 - USE Geological Timescale quiz - see LINKS COURSE WEB PAGE TO TEST YOURSELF!

http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/instruct/ashworth/webpages/g106/GeoTime/GeoTimeDrill.html

Igneous rocks, p. 42

Sedimentary Rocks, 48-49

Size and sorting of clastic grains, pp. 70-71, see also Fig. 3-10

The sedimentary rock record, pp. 83-86

Correlation and types of unconformities, pp. 89-93

The fossil record 105 - 111

Fossils and Stratigraphy, pp. 124-128

Reading assignments for Test 2 ( there will also be questions from the Geological Time scale pp 14-20 and you will be expected to work out a cross-cutting relationship diagram) (see above).

Quantitative Geologic time, pp. 20-31

The Age of the Earth, pp. 31-32.

The mantle and the Crust, pp. 154-161

Plate Tectonics, pp. 161- 195

The Primordial Earth: Hadean and Archean Eons, pp 218-219.

Reading assignments for Test 3 ( There will also be questions from the Geological Time scale pp 14-20 (see above).

The primordial Earth, pp 212-239

The Proterozoic Eon, pp. 241-265

Life of the Paleozoic, pp. 331-339, 344, 349-354, 359-366

Reading for Test 4 ( There will also be questions from the Geological Time scale pp 14-20 (see above).

Paleozoic vertebrate animals, pp. 359-371

Paleozoic plants, 371-375

Mass extinctions, pp. 375-378

Mesozoic of the east coast (Massachusetts, etc), pp. 381-385

Mesozoic tectonics of the west and sedimentation, pp. 394- 404

Mesozoic plants, pp. ???

Rocky Mountains and High Plains, pp. 466-473

Reading for Test 5 (There will also be questions from the Geological Time scale pp 14-20; also "Birth of the Rockies" video and ND Badlands classes

The evolution of the horse, p. 120, 122-123, 524-527

Life of the Mesozoic - Chapter 12 - 417- 460

Rocky Mountains and High Plains, pp. 466-473

The evolution of the horse, p. 120, 122-123, 524-527

Reading for Final TUESDAY, MAY 6, 8:00 - 10:00 A.M. (Ten of the 50 questions on the final will be from this part of the course)

The Great Pleistocene Ice Age, pp. 487-497

Ice age mammals and their demise, pp. 533-538