Format: 28 multiple choice questions, one short answer/draw on diagram question, four diagrams

Things you should know:

Be able to determine the relative ages of rocks in a cross-section (as in the homework) and tell me which of the following principles you used for a particular step:  original horizontality, lateral continuity, cross-cutting relationships, superposition, inclusions, fossil succession

Know your unconformities:  nonconformity, angular unconformity, disconformity and be able to recognize them in a diagram

Know what sequence of rock you expect to see in a stratigraphic column for a transgression and a regression

Know what is plotted on the axes of an isochron diagram.  Know how the slope of lines varies with time on an isochron diagram.  Know why we need to use an isochron diagram (the presence of initial daughter makes a rock look older than it actually is; we use an isochron to determine the initial amount of daughter in the rock--the slope tells us how many half lives have passed).

Be able to define dendrochronology, lichenometry, speleothem chronology, varve chronology and understand how radiocarbon dating is different from radiometric dating (with and isochron).

Look over your lab on shorelines and lithofacies maps.  Understand what is meant by a lithofacies map, a zero line, and how to tell whether the zero line represents a shoreline or an area lost to erosion.

Understand that sand is deposited at the shoreline, then as you go into deeper water, you go through shale and then limestone.

Quartz sandstone means the source region was cratonic, whereas arkose or graywacke indicates orogenic

Fossilization:  carbonization, permineralization, recrystallization, replacement, mold, cast - understand the differences between these