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Welcome To Class. www.kendricknovak.wikispaces.com. Agenda. Turn in homework Geologic time scale Notes Fossil Reading 2 Review for test. Geologic Time. If time was a 30 day month Recorded human history would be .18 minutes or 10.8 seconds
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Welcome To Class www.kendricknovak.wikispaces.com
Agenda • Turn in homework • Geologic time scale • Notes • Fossil Reading 2 • Review for test
Geologic Time • If time was a 30 day month • Recorded human history would be .18 minutes or 10.8 seconds • First Homo sapiens would be .013 days or 18.72 minutes or 1123.2 seconds • Cenozoic would be .42 days or 604 minutes • Mesozoic would be 1.18 days or 1700 minutes • Paleozoic would be 1.95 days or 2808 minutes • Precambrian would 26.4 days or 38106 minutes http://www.athro.com/geo/hgfr1.html
In a day… • Human history = 2.5 seconds • Home sapiens = .6 minutes • Cenozoic = 20.2 minutes • Mesozoic= 56.5 minutes • Paleozoic= 93.6 minutes • Precambrian= 1269.7 minutes
Geologic Time Scale • Geologic time scale – chart that divides Earth’s history into units of time • Divisions based on geologic events and major changes in living things
Geologic Time Scale Divided into eons, eras, and periods
PRECAMBRIAN TIME Length– beginning of time (4.6 billion yrs) – 542 million years ago Makes up 88% of Earth’s history
Precambrian Time • Major Events • Earth forms • Rocks and minerals form • Stromatolites (algae) are most common fossils
Paleozoic Era • Length – 542 – 251 million years ago • Major Events • Supercontinent, Pangea, formed • Shelled marine animals common • Land Plants and animals appear • Fish, amphibians, reptiles appear • Permian mass extinction
Paleozoic Broken Down • Cambrian • Ordovician • Silurian • Devonian • Carboniferous • Mississippian • Pennsylvanian • Permian
Mesozoic Era • Length – 251-65 million years ago • Age of the Dinosaurs • Major Events • Pangea broke up • Dinosaurs • First Birds • First flowers • Dinosaur extinction
Mesozoic Broken Down • Periods in the Mesozoic • Triassic • Jurassic • Cretaceous
Cenozoic Era • Length – 65 million years ago-present • Age of mammals • Major Events • Mammals appear • Continents in current places • First humans
Cenozoic Broken Down • Tertiary • Paleocene • Eocene • Oligocene • Miocene • Piliocene • Quaternary • Pleistocene • Holocene
Fossil Reading • Due today
Review • Worksheet due on test day • Create a Note card (tomorrow)
Which are the oldest? • Remember the laws/principles/unconformities • Law of Superposition • Principle of Original Horizontality • 3 Unconformities • Law of Cross Cutting Relationships
Absolute Age • Radiometric/carbon dating • Half life
Interpret a half life graph 5.8 days
Review • Work on the worksheet • Due on the TEST!! • Create a note card www.kendricknovak.wikispaces.com