Geologic Time

4/5/01


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Table of Contents

Geologic Time (I)

Indicators of Former Life

Geologic Time (II)

Principle of Superposition

The Grand Canyon

Superposition and Original Horizontality

Correlation (I)

Correlation (II)

Cross Cutting Relationships

Reconstructing Earth History

Untangling Earth History

Unconformities

Instrusion of a Granite

Exposure and Erosion

Subsidence and Deposition

Deposition

Folding and Uplift

Erosion and Subsidence

Deposition

Angular Unconformity

Unconformity - Major Loss of Time

Unconformities in the Grand Canyon

Absolute Time

Half-Life

Implications for Heating the Primative Earth

Decay Schemes (I)

Uranium to Lead

Decay Schemes (II)

Rb87 to Sr87

K40 to A40 (a gas)

Absolute Ages Bracket Sedimentary Events

U to Pb Yields Radon (a gas)

Geologic Time Scale

Overview of Geologic Time

Geologic Time Spiral

Author: John C Butler

Email: jbutler@uh.edu