Index

Schedule of topics:

Days Materials and discussed Reading Assignment

WEEK 1 (September 12-16]
MONDAY: Introduction: The Earth, Chapter 1
WEDNESDAY: Major features of the Continents and Ocean Floor, Chapter 2
FRIDAY: Global tectonics, Chapter 17

WEEK 2 (September 19-23)
MONDAY: Plate tectonics: A new Paradigm, Chapter 17
WEDNESDAY: Hot spots and absolute motions, Chapter 17
FRIDAY: Plate tectonic, Continental Crust & Mountain Building, Chapter 17

WEEK 3 (September 26- September 30)
MONDAY: Volcanism, Chapter 4
WEDNESDAY: Earthquakes and the Earth's interior, Chapter 16
FRIDAY: Earthquakes Conti., Chapter 16

WEEK 4 (October 3-7)
MONDAY : Folds, Faults and Mountains, Chapter 15
WEDNESDAY: Folds, Faults and Mountains conti., Chapter 15
FRIDAY: Geologic time, Chapter 8

WEEK 5 (October 10-14)
MONDAY: History of life Current perspectives in Geology
WEDNESDAY: History of Life 2000 Edition, part 6, page 173-220
FRIDAY: Midterm

WEEK 5 (October 17-21) No classes Department field trip to Salt Lake City, Utah
MONDAY: Field trip
WEDNESDAY: Field trip
FRIDAY: (OCTOBER-21) OVERVIEW OF THE SECOND HALF OF THE COURSE

WEEK 6 (October 24-28)
MONDAY: Weathering, Chapter 5
WEDNESDAY: Mass movement, River Systems, Chapter 9
FRIDAY: Stream Erosion, Deposition, Chapter 10

WEEK 7 (October 31-November 4)
MONDAY: Ground water uses and abuses, Chapter 11
WEDNESDAY: Glaciers, Pleistocene Glaciation, Chapter 12
FRIDAY: Eolian systems, shorelines, Chapter 13

WEEK 8 (November 7-11)
MONDAY: The Oceans, Chapter 14
WEDNESDAY: History of atmosphere, Handout
FRIDAY: Global climatic changes Chapter 18, 19 and
Current perspectives in geology, p.,143-167

WEEK 9 (November 14-16)
MONDAY: HOMINID EVOLUTION
WEDNESDAY: Review