First Block

Week	Topic	Web lecture	Reading *	Special
Week 1	Ancient and Medieval Renaissance geology	al-Biruni Agricola	IBS 1 & 2 SM 1-9	Set up email
Week 2	Renaissance geology European 18th century	Steno Lomonosov	IBS 3-4 SM 10-17
Week 3	European 18th century	Bergman Humboldt	IBS 5 & 6 geo_images.pdf
Week 4	European 18th century		IBS 7	Abstract 1
Week 5	European 19th century	Agassiz Nansen	IBS 8 IF I-II
Week 6	European 20th century	Wegener Skłodowska-Curie	IBS 9 IF III-IV
Week 7	Select teams Choose topics		IBS 15 & 16 IF V-VI	Abstract 2

Second Block

Week	Topic	Web lecture	Reading *	Special
Week 8	American geology	Maclure, Geological Survey of Canada	IBS 10-11
Week 9	U.S. geology	Gilbert & Chamberlin	IBS 11 & 12
Week 10	Team projects			Abstract 3
Week 11	U.S. geology	Penrose & GSA	IBS 13 & 14
Week 12	Kansas geology	Sternbergs & Wooster
Week 13	Kansas geology	Kansas Academy Science		Abstract 4
Week 14	Teamwork			Team projects

* Text books: IBS = It began with a stone (Faul and Faul 1983).
SM = The seashell on the mountaintop (Cutler 2004).
IF = The ice finders (Bolles 1999).

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