GEOL
1122 (CRN 8090)
Introduction
to Geosciences II
Fall
2002
Homepage: TBA
Instructor: Dr. Sam Peavy (Roney 208)
Class: Roney 205, TR 9:30 - 10:45
Lab: Roney 305, T 1:00 - 2:50
Text:
The Changing Earth (3rd Ed.) by James S. Monroe & Reed Wicander
and a lab
manual (to be handed out)
Objective Statement:
The student will be introduced to the evidence for a long and dynamic
Earth history, the methods of logical interpretation of the evidence, and a
brief summary of important events in the Earths history.
Class Policies:
1)
Attendance
is required for both lecture and lab. If
you miss an exam or lab, you must have an excuse from a doctor
or the Student Health Center to make up missed graded material.
Failure to provide an adequate excuse will result in a grade of 0
(zero) for the assignment.
2)
I will be available in my office for questions from 8:30-9:20 AM
Tuesday and Thursday, and Mondays and Wednesdays from 6:30-7:20 PM
(other times by appointment only).
I can also be called at 931-2330 or reached by email at speavy@canes.gsw.edu.
3)
Your grade will be based on lab exercises, exams from
both lab and lecture, and a comprehensive Final Exam at the end
of the semester. There will be
four lecture exams and three lab exams during the term (see schedules below).
These will count towards you final grade as follows:
12
Lab Exercises 12% (1% each)
3
Lab Exams 18% (6% each)
4
Lecture Exams 50% (12.5% each)
1
Final Exam 20%
Lecture
exams will consist of a mixture of multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank,
matching, short answer and essay questions over material covered in class.
Lab exams will be practical and will test your knowledge
and ability to identify rocks, minerals and fossils, interpret geologic
structure and relative and absolute time, understand the geologic history of
Georgia and Providence Canyon, etc. Of
the 13 lab exercises, the lowest grade will be dropped, i.e. only 12 will
count towards your grade.
4)
The grading scale will be as follows:
|
Numerical Grade |
Letter
Grade |
|
90
100 |
A |
|
80
89.9 |
B |
|
70
79.9 |
C |
|
60
69.9 |
D |
|
Less
than 60 |
F |
Lecture Topic List
Date |
Topic |
Readings |
|
Aug.
20 22 |
Introduction/Quick
Review; Uniformitarianism; Geologic Time |
Chapters
1, 17 |
|
Aug.
27 29 |
Geologic
Time / Relative & Absolute Dating |
Chapter
17 |
|
Sept.
3 5 |
Development
of the Time Scale; Correlation |
Chapter
17 |
|
Sept.
10 |
Correlation |
Chapter
17 |
Sept. 12 |
EXAM 1 |
Chapters 1,17 |
|
Sept.
17 19 |
Plate
Tectonics |
Chapters
9 |
|
Sept.
24 26 |
Plate
Tectonics |
Chapter
9 |
|
Oct.
1 3 |
Structural
Geology |
Chapter
10 |
|
Oct.
8 |
Structural
Geology |
Chapter
10 |
Oct. 10 |
EXAM 2 |
Chapters 9-10 |
Oct. 15 17 |
Fossils
and Organic Evolution |
Chapter
18 |
Oct. 22 24
|
Fossils
and Organic Evolution |
Chapter
18 |
|
Oct.
29 31 |
Origin of the Earth and Solar System
|
Chapter
19 |
Nov. 5 |
EXAM 3 |
Chapters 18-19 |
Nov. 7
|
The Precambrian
|
Chapters 20
|
|
Nov.
12 14 |
The Precambrian; The Paleozoic |
Chapters 20, 21 |
|
Nov.
19 21 |
The Paleozoic |
Chapter
22 |
Dec. 3
|
The
Last 245 Million Years |
Chapter
23, 24 |
Dec. 5 |
EXAM 4 |
Chapters 20-24 |
Dec. 10 |
Review Day |
|
Dec 17 |
|
|
Lab
Schedule
Date |
Topic |
|
Aug.
20 |
Review
of Rocks & Minerals |
|
Aug.
27 |
Facies
& Sedimentary Environments |
|
Sept.
3 |
Geologic
Time |
|
Sept.
10 |
Geology of Georgia |
Sept. 17 |
LAB EXAM 1 |
Sept. 24
|
Plate Tectonics
|
|
Oct.
1 |
Structure I |
|
Oct.
8 |
Geologic Mapping I |
Oct. 15
|
Geologic Mapping II
|
|
Oct. 22 |
LAB EXAM 2
|
|
Oct.
29 |
Field
Trip to Providence Canyon* |
|
Nov.
5 |
Fossils I |
|
Nov.
12 |
Fossils II |
Nov. 19
|
Correlation
|
Dec. 3
|
Biostratigraphy
|
Dec. 10 |
LAB EXAM 3 |
*
The Providence Canyon field trip will be held on Oct. 29, RAIN OR
SHINE.