FULL EPSIODE 01 Learning the Rock Record 60 minutes Full Lesson Listing sites.google.com/site/mineguy101/home/lessons This geology course through Laurentian University in Ontario. "Understanding the Earth" originally aired on TVO Ontario in 1975 and rebroadcasted in 1986 Reading the Rock Record - Lesson 1 - •Revolution in earth science in early 70's •Geological time in Ontario •Geological processes •Vastness of geological time, understanding geological time •Compressing geological time scale in a calendar year •Summary of the calendar year in geo time; oOldest rocks date from mid-march oLiving things occur in the sea in May oLand plants and animals in Late November oDinosaurs become dominant in mid-Decmember and extinct a week later oMan like creatures appear Dec 31 oRome rules the western world for 5 seconds 11:59:45 11:59:50 New Years eve oColumbus discovers America 3 sec before midnight oScience of geology is born 1 second before the turn of the calendar year •History of Man has been brief •Time •Grand Canyon ocont'd with time scale oRock cycle generalized with respect to time oErosion process with respect to time oLimestone formation with respect to time oMountains with respect to time oSedimentary processes oTrilobotes -- largest creatures in existence at the time Grand canyon illustrations of time Grand Canyon -- sponges, sea lily's Petrified forest -- evergreen forest 200 million log jam Dinosaurs with respect to time •Rocks of the Grand Canyon •Clues of rocks -- ripples, layering •General overview the 22 series of Understanding of Earth •Changing of geological thinking •Deformations of rock •Making comparisons of today and the past •Lab experiments •Grand Canyon time scale -- showing structures and age •Demonstration of the geological timescale •Grand Canyon time scale -- showing structures and age •Ontario geology unconformity similar to Grand Canyon •Boundaries of geological scale are separated my time scale •Geological time scale developed in Europe

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