Geologic History and Landscapes
- Notes
- Learning Objectives
- Utilize the following concepts to determine the relative ages of rocks
- Super Position
- Cross Cutting Relationships
- Original Horizontality
- Explain how intrusions extrusions, folding, faulting, and unconformities alter the relative ages of surrounding rocks.
- Identify which characteristics of an index fossil make it easy to match the relative ages of rocks.
- Identify an index fossil given a series of geologic cross sections.
- Determine phenomena that can be used to correlate the ages of rocks.
- Understand how radioactive data decays over time.
- Explain the relationship between half lives and the age of a rock or fossil.
- Correlate using fossil or rock types
- Draw and interpret geologic profiles
- Read the Generalized Bedrock Geology Map of NY in the ESRT.
- Identify the main landscape regions of NY
- Describe the factors that affect landscape development
- Utilize the following concepts to determine the relative ages of rocks
- Vocabulary
- Assignments
- Labs
- Videos
- Layers of the Grand Canyon YouTube | My Big Campus
- Life before Oxygen YouTube | My Big Campus
- Animations / Interactive
- Formation of Unconformities
- Correlation of rock layers
- Review