Course Objectives
Course objectives:
- Provide students with the basic knowledge of chronologic earth history and life record.
- Teach students how to treat and analyze paleontologic data and their classification into reasonable categories.
- Teach students methods of correlation of rock bodies and how to interpret the reasoning behind this correlation.
- Teach students how to analyze the morphologic features of fossil groups in the laboratory, using appropriate tools.
- Teach students how to order geologic events in the field, using stratigraphic and paleontologic data.