GLG 101
INTRODUCTION TO GEOLOGIC TIME

SELF-TEST

What to do:

  1.Go to the web pages for Chapter 8 of our text.
  2.Answer the "concept review", and "chapter review" questions. Each time "submit" the answers to me at: kmontgom@uwc.edu
     along with your  name.

Conditions:

  1.Doing this is voluntary.
  2.If you chose to do this exercise you must submit the answers by the deadline given in class.
  3.If you obtain a grade of 80% on all self-tests in the semester I will count if for 2% of the total test grade -- straight raise!
  4.You can submit each self-test only once.

Here are some links on the topic of geologic time.

• "Virtual Dating" -- interactive tutorial. Chose the "Virtual Dating Isochron"
• Three views of the Grand Canyon, illustrating unconfomities:
• The nonconformity in the Inner Gorge
• The great angular unconformity betweeen the Proterozoic and Paleozoic formations
• ..... another view of the same.
• A virtual tour of the Grand Canyon
• The Talk.Origins Archive (detailed FAQs on dating, the age of Earth, creationism debates etc. An excellent resource).
• Radiocarbon dating (basic information, discussion, FAQs)
• Dendrochrology (tree-ring dating) and its uses.
• Neo-catastrophism and uniformitarianism -- a case study of the Channeled Scablands of Washington (HERE is a view of some giant ripple marks from the area)
• Berkeley's Geologic Time Machine