Week 1 Ch-12 Deep Time: How Old Is Old?
Part 1: Geological timescale, relative and numerical time, physical principles of relative age determination, the principle of fossil succession, stratigraphic correlation, and geological map.
Week 2 Ch-12 Deep Time: How Old Is Old?
Part 2: The geological column, the geological time and life, numerical age, and the age of the Earth.
Week 3 Ch-13 A Biography of the Earth
Part 1: Methods for studying the past, the biography of the Earth: starting from forming of the Earth to the age of Precambrian.
Week 4 Ch-13 A Biography of the Earth、Memories of Past Life: Fossils and Evolution
Part 2: From Paleozoic to Cenozoic. Fossils and fossilization. Extinction.
Week 5 First mid-term exam
Week 6 Ch-14 Squeezing Power from a Stone: Energy Resources
Week 7 Ch-14 Squeezing Power from a Stone: Energy Resources
Week 8 Ch-15 Riches in Rock: Mineral Resources
Week 9 Ch-15 Riches in Rock: Mineral Resources
Week 10 Second exam
Week 11 Ch-16 Unsafe Ground: Landslides and Other Mass Movements
Week 12 Ch-17 Streams and Floods: The Geology of Running Water
Week 13 Ch-18 Restless Realm: Oceans and Coasts
Ch-19 A Hidden Reserve: Groundwater
Week 14 Ch-20 An Envelope of Gas: The Earth’s Atmosphere and Climate
Ch-21 Dry Regions: The Geology of Deserts
Week 15 Ch-22 Amazing Ice: Glaciers and Ice Ages
Ch-23 Global Change in the Earth System
Week 16 Third exam