Sept 4 Notes - Prof. Andrew Caruthers PDF

Title	Sept 4 Notes - Prof. Andrew Caruthers
Author	Nick Alberty
Course	Geol Natl Pks / Monumt
Institution	Western Michigan University
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GEOS 3120 Sept 4 – Syllabus Notes GET A CLICKER FROM BOOKSTORE What's the Point? To appreciate the importance and beauty of our National Parks. To begin to understand how to “read” a landscape. Given a rock structure or landscape... How it formed? How long it took to form? Recognize the magnitude of the forces required to shape it. Who am I? Course Logistics. CLICKER Registering e-Learning >Resources >>Register i-Clicker Schedule and Mapping Project. Misc Notes Set up a chart for different formations... Column 1 being Formation Order Column 2 being Event Column 3 being Comments Oldest

4.6 Bya 2.5 Bya 542 Mya 488.3 Mya 443 Mya 416 Mya 359.2 Mya 318 Mya 299 Mya 252.2 Mya 145.5M 65.5M 55.8M 33.9M 23M 5.3M

Archean Earth forms Proterozoic Cambrian Ordovician Silurian Devonian Mississippian Pennsylvanian Permian Triassic Jurassic Cretaceous Paleocene Eocene Oligocene Miocene

5 Major Mass Extinction Events on Earth....