Geology 220

Basic Information

• Lectures: 2A in Music and Drama LL06
• Lab: Th 1:00-5:00 in LL06
• Class TA: Ben Lowry
• Lab TA: Gabe Lobet
• Wiki TA: Natalie Hummel; ffice hours 7-10 pm on Sunday
• Office hours: TBA. For other times, check my schedule to see times when I am available, then send me an email (where you also propose several times where you are available).

Useful course links

• See the syllabus
• Tentative schedule
• The wiki can be found here

Course Updates

Week 10

• Wiki: The final version of your wiki is due at the end of our exam slot (Saturday November 23rd at 6:00 pm). If you're done early, send me an email please (so I can start grading).
• Wiki, again: You should feel free to reorganize sections as you revise if it helps you tell the story of your plate better. But I will be looking for all the original sections somewhere in your final version.
• Reading: well, I forgot to remind you that Chapter 8 and 9 and 10 are relevant.

Week 9

• Wee homework for Monday: Read the email that I received. Then be ready to discuss the questions. You do not have to turn in your answers, but you do need to be ready to discuss answers so perhaps jot down some of your responses.
• Lab projects: presentations will be on Wednesday next week in class. Make sure that each group member gets to talk. Please bring 6 copies of your half sheet (so three pages) and an extra copy with the key and the exercise side-by-side. Also, send me a pdf (or illustrator) of the half-sheet activity by Wednesday.

Week 7

• Reading: Chapter 6.
• Homework: none.
• Lab on Thursday is project work time. Lab next week will still be project work time.
• Wiki: your wiki final topic assignment is due next Friday. Email me if you still don't know what you're going to write about.

Week 6 (really weekend 6)

• Reading: Chapter 5.
• Wiki: the assignment for next Monday is about plate history.
• Your labs about seafloor spreading are due next Thursday in lab. Be sure to include a bit of text explaining how you did the calculations - these concept sketches should really be a way to study for you in the future.
• Lab next week is project play time.
• Homework: there is a new homework assignment about Euler poles due on Friday next week.

Week 5

• Reading: You have now graduated to chapters 3 and 4.
• Wiki: complete your fourth plate assignment was due on Monday. Take a break from editing another plate for now (because we are a bit caught up from lab).
• Wiki: The next assignment about plate motion is due next Wednesday (unless you're on the field trip).
• Lab: We meet in the Library computer lab.
• Homework: the assignment about seafloor stripes was due on Friday. You can work with a partner - if you do, please write the answers in your own words and turn in your own copy (but let me know who you worked with). But since so many of you were not done on Friday, we're going to grade it next week on Wednesday
• New homework: the homework about plate motion is due next Friday. As always, feel free to work with others but turn in your own work. You may want to skip the first page and work on the velocity space diagrams first - many students find the first page quite challenging.

Week 4

• Reading: here are the most useful sections of chapter 2: 2.1, 2.2-2.4, 2.7-2.9, 2.11, 2.12 and 2.13.
• Wiki: Your next assignment about the gravity of your plate is due on Monday.
• Homework: Remember, the isostasy homework is due on Monday, too.
• Lab: Your gravity lab write-up will be due on Wednesday.

Week 3

• Lab: Your lab about the Izmit earthquake is due on Thursday. Turn in one report for your pair/trio.
• Textbook: You can now read 2.1-2.9 in the textbook. It will cover some things in more detail that we will.
• Wiki: Edit another plate page by Friday (class-time). Make the comments for your plate partner from last week.
• Wiki: complete your third plate assignment for next Monday (or secretly for Saturday, if you want to distribute homework more evenly).
• Homework: the second homework about isostasy will be due next Monday, to be graded in class.
• If you want another explanation for focal mechanisms, watch this 6+ minute video here.
• Lab next week: a learning opportunity!

Week 2 2017

• Homework: We will grade the scorpion assignment in class on Wednesday.

Week 1

• Reading: Read Chapter 1 in the textbook for Wednesday. You can also start to look through Chapter 2. Before reading any text in Chapter 2, start by looking at all the diagrams and trying to figure out what they mean. We're going to spend a while in Chapter 2, so take your time.
• More reading: read the syllabus by Wednesday.
• Wiki preparation. Log into Carlpedia by Wednesday.
• In Chapter 2, try out section 2.1 (but skip the focal mechanisms) and sections 2.2-2.4...for early next week.
• Complete the half-sheet for Friday.
• Homework: the scorpion assignment is due next Wednesday. Please feel free to work with a partner, especially if you're rusty or new to Excel, but let me know who you worked with. Each of you should turn in your own work in your own words. You will need a compass (not the magnetic kind) - I will leave some on one of the side tables in the classroom. Please don't take them out of the room.
• Complete your first wiki assignment for Monday. The assignment is posted on the weekly assignment page on the wiki home screen.
• For lab on Thursday, two concept sketches are due. Draw decent sized images on 11x17 paper of (1) a subduction zone (ocean-continent), and (2) a transform fault between two mid-ocean ridge segments. Use an Intro book (or the internet) to help you figure out how to make these drawings; 3D versions will be better. The text that you add should reflect the four kinds of data that we looked at in lab this week: geography (topography/bathymetry), age of the seafloor, earthquakes, and volcanoes. Don't go overboard with other information. Use symbols to show the locations of earthquakes and volcanoes.

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15 November 2019