Slide 1Earth History GEOL 2110 Lecture 9 Absolute Dating of the Earth Slide 2 Major Concepts The discovery of radioactivity in the early 1900s and the recognition that radioactive…

Slide 1Earth History GEOL 2110 Lecture 10 Origin and Early Evolution of the Earth Part 1: Accretion of the Planets Slide 2 Major Concepts The Earth and the other planets…

Slide 1Earth History GEOL 2110 The Cenozoic Era The Modern World Emerges Tectonics Slide 2 Major Concepts The volcanic null that corresponded with the Laramide Orogeny starting…

Slide 1 Earth History GEOL 2110 The Paleozoic Era The Vendian, Cambrian, and Early Ordovician Periods Slide 2 Major Concepts The long-lived supercontinent of Rodinia created…

Slide 1 Earth History GEOL 2110 Lecture 2 Scales of Time and Change Slide 2 Major Concepts Geological events cover huge amounts of time that are hard to grasp in the span…

Slide 1 Earth History GEOL 2110 Lecture 4 Development of Geological Concepts, Part II Slide 2 Toward a Unified Theory of the Earth The Cosmogonists Developed all-encompassing…

Slide 1 Earth History GEOL 2110 The Dawn of Humans and the Effects of Climate on Civilizations The Pleistocene Epoch The Dawn of Humans and the Effects of Climate on Civilizations…

Slide 1 Earth History GEOL 2110 The Paleozoic Era Silurian and Devonian Periods - Part I Time of Fish, Amphibians and Forests Slide 2 Major Concepts Biodiversity on the seafloor…

Slide 1 Earth History GEOL 2110 The Paleozoic Era Part 5b: Geological History of Gondwanaland and Late Paleozoic Life Slide 2 Major Concepts The continental reconstructions…

Slide 1 Earth History GEOL 2110 Lecture 6 EVOLUTION Part II Slide 2 Major Concepts In the late 1700/early 1800’s, a number of natural scientists had proposed that evolution…