JEO112E General Geology:

The Solid Earth System 

Fall-2004 Schedule


Week

Date

Lectures

Textbook&Online-Notes

 Recitations

  Extra Reading

Exams 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1

27 Sept.

Our Home Planet
as a System:

Earth System Sciences

Syllabus

Chapter 1

 


Dynamic Earth

 

 

2

4 Oct.

The Structure of the Earth

Chapter 17

 

 

 

 

3

11 Oct. 

Earth Science Week

Chapter 19
Plate Tectonics

Lab-Earth materials 1:
silicates & granites

Igneous Rocks
Lab Sheet

 

 

 

4

18 Oct.

Plate Tectonics

 

Moving Plates

 

 

5

25 Oct.

Mountain Belts and
Continental Crust

Chapter 20


Field Trip (rain or shine)
"Campus Geology"


ESW
Homework
Due

 1 Nov. 

Geologic Structures and
Earthquakes

  Chapters 15 &16

Lab-Earth materials:
igneous rocks

 

Field Trip
Raport Due

 

7

8 Nov. 

The Seafloor
Coastal processes

Chapters 14 & 18
Continental Margins
and Ocean Basins

 

 

 

 

8

15 Nov.

Holiday

 

 

 

 

9

22 Nov. 

Surface of the Earth


Chapter 5

Recitation
What is a Topographic Map?

Surface Mapping

 

10

29 Nov.

Time and Earth

               Chapter 8     

 

 

11

6 Dec.

Earth Materials 1
Minerals and
Igneous rocks

 
Chapters 3-4


by C. Jaupart

(21 Dec. 2004)

 

Exam

 

12

13 Dec. 

Earth Materials 2
Sedimentary rocks

The Hydrologic Cycle,
Weathering & Erosion

 

Lab-Earth materials:
sediments

 

13

20 Dec.

Earth Materials 3
Metamorphic rocks

Chapters 6

  

Lab-Earth materials:
sediments

 

14

27 Dec. 

Review

Chapter 7

 

Lab-Earth materials:
metamorphics

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

6 Jan.2005

Final Exam