READING ASSIGNMENTS
GEOLOGY 230
EVOLUTION OF THE EARTH

Lynn S. Fichter    -    Fichtels@jmu.edu
Part One - The Rock Record
Its Origin and Ordering
The readings are located on the shelf in the middle cabinet, Room 209. Ask if you can't find them. Remember, they may not be removed from the class room, except to photocopy, or if another class is meeting in the room during the time you want to read.
Lecture Readings
Lab Readings
Earth Origins
>   Shklovski and Sagan, Intelligent Life in the Universe, p 69-86, 105-109, 161-178.

>Stuart Ross Taylor, 1998, Destiny or Chance: our solar system and its place in the cosmos, read pages 38-64, and 134-145.

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Philosophy of Science
>   Bronowski, Jacob, 1978, Magic, Science, and Civilization: Columbia University Press, 88 p. (Read Chapters 2 and 3, pages 19-60)

>   Cannon, Walter F., 1990, The Uniformitarian- Catastrophist Debate: Isis, Vol. 51, Part 1, No. 163, p. 38-55.

>   Frodeman, Robert, 1995, Geological Reasoning: Geology as an interpretive and historical science: Geological Society of America Bulletin; v. 107, no 8: p 960-968.

>   Shea, James H., 1982, Twelve Fallacies of Uniformitarianism: Geology, September, Vol. 10, p. 455-460.

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 >   Lab Manual: Ancient Environments, An Introduction to Rocks, Tectonics, and Ancient Environments, p 1-8

>   Lab Manual: Ancient Environments, review Igneous and Metamorphic rock labs, p. 9-31.

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