Lecture 01, Jan. 17, 2007   Introduction: WHYs and HOWs    Lecture Slides

Lecture 02, Jan. 22, 2007   How did our earlier generations think about the Earth?: Historical Review    Lecture Slides
                                          Reading Assignment: England et al., 2007, GSA Today.

Lecture 03, Jan. 24, 2007   How Do We Know the Age of the Earth: Relative and Absolute Ages    Lecture Slides

Lecture 04, Jan. 29, 2007   Materials for studying the Earth history: Rocks and Minerals (a review)    Lecture Slides

Lecture 05, Jan. 31, 2007   Sedimentary Record: What information can we get?    Lecture Slides

Lecture 06, Feb. 5, 2007   Sedimentary Record: Interpreting the Earth history    Lecture Slides

Lecture 07, Feb. 7, 2007   Fossils in Sedimentary Record: A Major Tool for Telling Time   Lecture Slides

Lecture 08, Feb. 12, 2007   Fossils in Sedimentary Record: Information on Earth System Changes   Lecture Slides

Lecture 09, Feb. 14, 2007   Plate Tectonics and Rock Cycles: Complexity of the Earth Record   Lecture Slides

Lecture 10, Feb. 21, 2007   Plate Tectonics and Rock Cycles: Revealing the Earth history    Lecture Slides

Lecture 11, Feb. 28, 2007   Life through Time: The Early Days   Lecture Slides

Lecture 12, March 5, 2007   Midterm Review   Powerpoints

Lecture 13, March 19, 2007   Life through Time: the Rise of Oxygen and Evolution of Eukaryotes   Lecture Slides

Lecture 14, March 21, 2007   Life through time: The Proterozoic Eon    Lecture Slides

Lecture 15, March 26, 2007   Life through time: The 'Snowball' Earth    Lecture Slides   Powerpoint

Lecture 16, March 28, 2007   Life through time: The Paleozoic Biosphere    Lecture Slides   Powerpoint

Lecture 17, April 2, 2007   Earth Through Time: The Paleozoic Tectonic History and Stratigraphic Sequences of North America    Lecture Slides   Powerpoint

Lecture 18, April 4, 2007   Mass Extinction at the End of Permian    Lecture Slides   Powerpoint

Lecture 19, April 9, 2007   What’s New in the Mesozoic ?    Lecture Slides   Powerpoint

Lecture 20, April 11, 2007   The Mesozoic Biosphere and the Dinosaur World   Lecture Slides   Powerpoint

Lecture 21, April 18, 2007   Evolution: From Dinosaurs to Birds   Lecture Slides    Sorry, Powerpoint file is too big

Lecture 22, April 23, 2007   The Cenozoic Tectonics and Climates    Lecture Slides   Powerpoint

Lecture 23, April 25, 2007   Life through Time: Cenozoic–The Age of Mammals    Lecture Slides   Powerpoint

Lecture 24, April 30, 2007   Life through Time: Human Origins    Lecture Slides   Powerpoint

Lecture 25, May 2, 2007   Final Exam Review   Final Review Slides