PPT-Understanding Geologic History

What is it and Why do we care What is the geologic time scale Geologic Time Scale A record of the Earths history broken up into various units of time that are based on types of fossils contained within . GEOL 2110. Lecture 2. Scales of Time and Change. Major Concepts. Geological events cover huge amounts of time that are hard to grasp in the span of human life. We tend to focus on dramatic, short-lived geologic events that we witness and are unaware of subtle, but geologically important events . 01: . Geologic Time . Scale. Huge sections of time are broken down into smaller groups of time:. E. ons, Eras, . P. eriods, and . E. pochs. Eon. is the largest time block. . (kind of like what we would think of as years).. Comparison of Conventional & Short-Age Geology. Faith, Reason, and Earth History. Chapter 14. by Dr. Leonard Brand. Short-age. Geology. Conventional. Geology. Assumptions. Interpretations. Challenges. Distributed . Geoscience Datasets and . the Role . of Semantic Technologies. Xiaogang (Marshall) Ma. Tetherless World Constellation. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. @. MarshallXMa. max7@rpi.edu. x.marshall.ma. Chapter 7 lesson 4. What is the geologic time scale?. Geologists use the geologic time scale to show Earth’s history.. It is a record of the geologic events and the evolution of life forms as shown by the fossil record.. Mapping, spectroscopy and geologic analysis of Earth’s “sister” planet. Venus. The Basics, pre-1960. Radius 95% of Earth, mass 82%. 92X Earth atmospheric pressure, 97% CO2. 462°C surface temp. By Paula . Waggy. Franklin High School. With students working in pairs, pass the cardboard or . styrofoam. strips with insects pinned to them but in the wrong time periods. As an alternative, students can use their own insect collections and receive empty strips.. Who was James Hutton?. In the late 1700s, James Hutton began to question some of the ideas regarding the Earth.. He found fossils and saw them as evidence of life forms that no longer exist. . Different types of fossilized creatures were found in different layers of rock.. Geological “Clocks”. Geologic time determination is subdivided into 2 categories:. Relative Dating: simply determines whether or not an event occurs before or after another event (e.g. a granite dike is younger than the surrounding sandstone since it intrudes across the sandstone in an outcrop).. Organization of . Ch. 21-24. Ch. 21.1 – Describes the geologic time scale. Ch. 22 – Precambrian Earth. . Section 1: Early Earth. . Section 2: Formation of the Crust and Continents. . Section 3: Formation of the Atmosphere and Oceans. “Civilization exists by geologic consent” -Will Durant. Where are the world’s great cities located and why?. Why are Earliest Humans Here?. East African Rift. Water. Animals. Preservation of fossils. Regents Earth Science. Miss Wojdan. The . presence of coal in Antarctica indicates . that. Forests can grow on continental . . glaciers. Coal can form in cold climates. Antarctica’s climate was once warmer. Section 12.1 Discovering earth’s history. Uniformitarianism – the idea that physical, chemical, and biological laws that operate today also operated in the past; the present is the key to the past.. Normally we think of time in terms of days or years but geologists commonly refer to events that happened millions or billions of years ago. For example earth is approximately 4.6 billion years old. GEOLOGIC TIME.