Name Cards Please

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Name Cards Please

• Your name
• Major
• Hometown
• Two things you think might be most interesting to
  learn about in this class
• Favorite band

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Introduction to Geology
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Geology is
Diverse
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Earth scientists use repeatable observations and
testable ideas to understand and explain our
planet.
BIG IDEA 1
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Fields of Geology (Text -Table P.1)

• Engineering
• Environmental
• Geochemistry
• Geomorphology
• Hydrogeology
• Geophysics
• Paleontology
• Volcanology
• Glaciology
• Sedimentology
• Petrology
• Biogeochemistry
• Petroleum geology
• Seismology
• Oceanography
• Limnology
• Speleology
• Geoarchaeology
• Geochronology

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Yellowstone N.P.
Search continues as 700 feared dead in Taiwan
typhoon mudslide
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The Earth is 4.6 billion years old
BIG IDEA 2
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Deep Time
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Pioneers of Geologic Time
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Apennine Mountains
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Stratigraphic correlation
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Time - its all relative
, or is it?
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The Earth is 4.6 billion years old
BIG IDEA 2
A wow, side story!
Clair Patterson Mitchellville, Iowa Some
consider him the most influential geologist of
the century!
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Absolute time

• Numerical time
• 14C has a half-life of 5,730 years
• Cannot be used beyond 70,000 years
• Realistic range 35,000 to 55,000 years