An Online (Distance Education) Course offered by the University of British Columbia
EOSC 326
Earth and Life Through Time

One of the topic modules below is (or will soon be) linked to a sample lesson.  Students who register for this course can see all the lessons.


Module A.  Geological Time 

Lesson 1: Time, Rocks and Stratigraphy
Lesson 2: Sediments Through Time
Lesson 3: Correlating Rocks
Lesson 4: Fossil Basics

grand canyon

Module B.  Origins and Extinctions

Lesson 4: Early Earth and Earliest Life
Lesson 5: The Cambrian Explosion
Lesson 6: Mass Extinctions
trilobite

Module C.  Case Studies of Life Through Space and Deep Time

Lesson 7: Trilobites and Graptolites Reveal
Earth's Ancient Paleoenvironments
Lesson 8: Ammonites Help Unwind Earth's
Ancient Geography
Lesson 9: Reefs as Barometers for the Health
and Stability of Earth's System
Lesson 10: Vertebrates Demonstrate the
Convoluted Path of Evolution
 
reef


See samples of other Distance Ed courses offered by the UBC Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Science Dept.
See learning goals and textbook info for this course.
Photo credits:
1) The Great Angular Unconformity at the Grand Canyon.  Horizontal strata at the top of the photograph sit on top of tilted strata. Photo from the U.S. Geological Survey.
2) Early Cambrian Trilobite, Olenellus fowleri  fossil found in the Pioche Shale Formation, Nevada, size 30 mm. The genus is restricted to the early Cambrian (540-520 million years ago). Image courtesy of the Virtual Fossil Museum. 
3) Reef near Florida Keys, courtesy of NOAA.

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