|
The Age of Dinosaurs
Geology 302D
|
| Schedule for Fall 2009 | ||||
| Date | Lecture | Assignments | ||
| Week 1 | ||||
|
Thursday, 8/28 |
Lecture 1: What Happened to the Dinosaurs? |
Reading: The Mistaken Extinction, pp. 1-20
Chapter 01 - the Seductive Allure of Dinosaurs
Chapter 02 - Earlier Extinction Hypotheses
|
||
|
Week 2 |
||||
|
Tuesday, 9/02 |
Lecture 2: The Discovery of Time |
Reading: pp. 21-42 Chapter 03 - Contrasting Volcanic and Impact Hypotheses
Chapter 04 - Enormous Eruptions, Disappearing Seaways
|
||
|
Thursday, 9/04 |
Lecture 3: Collecting Evidence |
Multimedia CD: Collecting Triceratops
|
||
|
Week 3 |
||||
|
Tuesday, 9/09 |
Lecture 4: Earth Structure & Evolution |
Multimedia CD: Plate Tectonics |
||
|
Thursday, 9/11 |
Lecture 5: Sedimentation and Fossilization |
Reading: pp. 43-66
|
||
|
Week 4 |
||||
|
Tuesday, 9/16 |
Lecture 6: Uniformitarianism & the Fatal Impact |
Reading: pp. 67-74 Chapter 06 - the Search for the Smoking Gun
|
||
|
Thursday, 9/18 |
Exam I | |||
|
Week 5 |
||||
|
Tuesday, 9/23 |
Lecture 7: Evolution, Hierarchy, & Genealogy |
Reading: pp. 75-90: Chapter 07 - Patterns of Survival and Extinction
Multimedia CD:
|
||
|
Thursday, 9/25 |
Lecture 8: The Vertebrate Skeleton |
Reading: pp. 91-104 Chapter 08 - Our Hazy View of Time at the K/T Boundary
Multimedia CD: Archosaur Anatomy
|
||
|
Week 6 |
||||
|
Tuesday, 9/30 |
Lecture 9: Vertebrate Origins |
Reading: pp. 105-124 |
||
|
Thursday, 10/02 |
Lecture 10: Fish-like Vertebrates |
Reading: pp. 125-140 |
||
|
Week 7 |
||||
|
Tuesday, 10/07 |
Lecture 11: Life on Land |
Reading: pp. 141-168 |
||
|
Thursday, 10/09 |
Lecture 12: Archosaurs |
Multimedia CD: Vertebrate Cladogram & Cladogram Quizzes |
||
|
Week 8 - SVP |
||||
|
Tuesday, 10/14 |
Lecture 13: The Origin of Dinosaurs |
Multimedia: Dinosaur Cladogram, Part I Reading: pp. 169-194 |
||
|
Thursday, 10/16 |
no lecture | |||
|
Week 9 |
||||
|
Tuesday, 10/21 |
no lecture |
Multimedia CD: Dino Cladogram & Dinosaur Drill Instructor |
||
|
Thursday, 10/23 |
Exam II | |||
|
Week 10 |
||||
|
Tuesday, 10/28 |
Lecture 14: Saurischia |
Multimedia CD: Dino Cladogram & Dinosaur Drill Instructor |
||
|
Thursday, 10/30 |
Lecture 15: Early Theropod Diversification |
Multimedia CD: Dino Cladogram & Dinosaur Drill Instructor |
||
|
Week 11 |
||||
|
Tuesday, 11/04 |
Lecture 16: Origin of Birds |
Reading: pp. 195-206 |
||
|
Thursday, 11/06 |
Lecture 17: Mesozoic Bird Evolution |
Reading: pp. 207-228 |
||
|
Week 12 |
||||
|
Tuesday, 11/11 |
Lecture 18: Death by Decree |
Multimedia CD: continued work with Dino Cladogram & Dinosaur Drill Instructor |
||
|
Thursday, 11/13 |
Exam III |
|||
|
Week 13 |
||||
|
Tuesday, 11/18 |
Lecture 19: Cenozoic Dinosaur Diversification |
Reading: pp. 229-244 Chapter 15 - Crossing the Boundary
|
||
|
Thursday, 11/20 |
Lecture 20: Origin of Mammals |
Reading: pp. 245-263 Chapter 16 - Diversification and Decline
|
||
|
Week 14 |
||||
|
Tuesday, 11/25 |
Lecture 21: Human Evolution - The First of Two Waves
|
Multimedia CD: Vertebrate Cladogram - Synapsids
Reading: pp. 265-284 |
||
| Thursday, 11/27 | Thanksgiving Holiday |
|
||
|
Week 15 |
||||
|
Tuesday, 12/02 |
Lecture 22: Continental Extinctions
|
Reading: pp. 285-296
and pp. 297-301
|
||
|
Thursday, 12/04 |
Exam IV (comprehensive) | |||
|
|
||||