| Week: 2007 | Lecture Coverage (1st meeting of week) | Lab Coverage (2nd meeting of week) |
| Aug 20-24 | Introduction; syllabus; text and lab books Discuss lab procedures Assign: one page paper on yourself (due second meeting of class this week). | Film: on Krakatoa (short write-up on film due first meeting next week...5 points) Basics of topographic maps exercise; questions 1-15 due next lab period (click "exercise" for assignment). *Due: one-page paper (10 easy pts) |
| Aug 27-31 | Discuss Chapter 1 (Intro to Geology) Assign: Chapter 11 Questions...Pick 15 of 18 questions from page 265 under "Questions For Review" (QFR) *Due: Write up on Krakatoa film, questions as follows: i. Describe three geologic hazards (e.g., tsunami) associated with the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa and how these hazards affected the nearby population; and ii. describe in general how geologists have pieced together the characteristics of this 1883 eruption. (5 points). Animation: Nebular Hypothesis | Topographic Maps lab (nine) *Due: topographic map exercise (15 points) |
| Sept 3-7 (no class Monday, Sept. 3) | Discuss: Chapter 11 (Glaciers and Glaciation)/film possible Assign: Chapter 12 Questions...Pick 15 of 16 QFR from page 282 NEW: glacier write up discussed in class...10 points and due in one week. *Due: Ch 11 Questions (15 points) | Glacier Lab (Thirteen) Animations: Glacial Isostasy, Glacial Ice, Plucking and Moraine |
| Sept 10-14 | Discuss: Chapter 12 (Deserts)/film possible Assign: Chapter 2 Questions...Pick 15 of 21 QFR page 54 NEW: Desert write-up: Compare and Contrast the Atacama Desert to the Gobi Desert. To do this, discuss the geographic location of each, their size and the reason why these deserts formed in such different settings. Typewritten, 1 page minimum, due in one week; cite references (10 points). *Due: Ch 12 Questions (15 points) NEW: due, glacier write up (10 points) | Deserts Lab (Fourteen) Animations: Global Winds 1, Global Winds 2, Sediment Transport, Wind Pattern |
| Sept 17-21 | Discuss: Chapter 2 (Minerals) Assign: Chapter 3 Questions...Pick 15 of 18 QFR page 78 NEW: Assignment: i. pick one non-silicate {metallic or nonmetallic} mineral. Describe its economic uses and the properties of this mineral that give it its economic value. ii. Then pick one gem quality mineral and describe the properties of this mineral that give it its value as a gem. iii. which mineral is more valuable to society and why? 1 page, typewritten with references. (10 points, due first meeting next week. NOTE: you can go to my website and click on "links for geology classes", then click on the minerals website under "other links" for help with this assignment> *Due: Chapter 2 Questions (15 points) *Due: Desert write-up. | Minerals Lab (Three) |
| Sept 24-28 | Discuss: Chapter 3 (Igneous Rocks) Assign: Chapter 4 Questions...Pick 20 of 28 QFR on page 112 (due next week); and online Volcano assignment. (due in two weeks). *Due: Chapter 3 Questions (15 points) *Mineral write up (10 points) | Rock Cycle Lab (Four) Fractional Crystallization Mantle Melt TuttleBowen |
| Oct 1-5 | Discuss: Chapter 4 (Volcanoes)/film Assign: Chapter 5 Questions...complete QFR #1-7 and 15 on page 134-135 (we are skipping the section on soil) *Due: Chapter 4 Questions (20 points) **Quiz over Chapter's 11, 12, 2 and 3 | Igneous Rock/Volcano Lab (Five) Crater Lake, Caldera, Mt. St. Helens, Ign Feat 1, Ign Feat 2, Magma Rise, Volcano Types, Magma Melting, TectonicVolcanic |
| Oct 8-12 | Discuss: Chapter 5 (Weathering) Assign: Chapter 6 Questions...Pick 15 of 19 QFR page 160 *Due: Chapter 5 Questions (8 points) *Due: Online Volcano Paper (25 points) | PhysicalWeathering, Compass Lab |
| Oct 15-19 | Discuss: Chapter 6 (Sedimentary Rocks) Assign: Chapter 7 Questions...Pick 15 of 16 QFR on page 182 *Due: Chapter 6 Questions (15 points) | CrossBedding Sedimentary Rock Lab (Six) |
| Oct 22-26 | Discuss: Chapter 7 (Metamorphic Rocks) Assign: Chapter 14 Questions...Pick 20 of 23 QFR on pages 332-333 *Due: Chapter 7 Questions (15 points) | Foliation, Foliation2, ExpMetaRx Metamorphic Rocks Lab (Seven) |
| Oct 29-Nov 2 | Discuss: Chapter 14 (Earthquakes) Assign: Chapter 15 Questions...Pick 15 of 21 QFR on page 364 *Due: Chapter 14 Questions (20 points) **Quiz over Chapters 4, 5, 6 and 7 | Elastic Rebound, PSWaves, SeismicWaves, Liquefaction, MantleCore, Seismograph, StressStrain, Tsunami Earthquake lab (Sixteen) |
| Nov 5-9 | Discuss: Chapter 15 (Plate Tectonics) Assign: Chapter 16 Questions...Pick 15 of 19 QFR on page 388 *Due: Chapter 15 Questions (15 points) | Pangaea, LavaLamp, SeafloorSpreading, SeafloorMag, InclinationDeclination, ConvectionTect, Convergent, Divergent, HotSpot. PlateBoundary, PlateMoTime, PlateMotion, RelAbMotion, TransformFault, TransformFault2 Tectonics Lab (Two) |
| Nov 12-16 (No class on Monday Nov 12; Veteran's Day) | Discuss: Chapter 16 (Ocean Floor) Assign: Chapter 17 Questions...Pick 20 of 28 QFR on pages 412-413 *Due: Chapter 16 Questions (15 points) | Ocean Circulation, Coriolis Begin Structural Lab (Ten) |
| Nov 19-23 (No classes Nov 22-24; Thanksgiving) | Discuss: Chapter 17 (Mountain Building) Assign: Chapter 18 QFR pick 17 of 21 questions on pages 437-438; and Chapter 19 QFR all 8 questions page 460-461 *Due: Chapter 17 Questions (20 points) | StressStrain, Faults, Faults2, ErosionSedRx, Folding1, Folding2, TerraneFormation Structural Lab Due before break; no other lab this week. |
| Nov 26-30 | Discuss: Chapter 18, Chapter 19 (Geologic Time and Earth History; partial) **Quiz: over Chapters 14, 15, 16 and 17 | EarthSun, KelvinCalc, Radioactivity Unconformity, AngularUnconformity, RelativeDating Dating Lab (Eight) |
| Dec 3-8 (final's week) | Final’s Week *Due: Chapter 18, 19 Questions (29 points) **Quiz: over Chapters 18 and 19 | |