Calendar for Spring Quarter, 2009

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Note: New material is being added and updated each week. Dates are subject to change.

Week
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday Friday Weekly ppts

1

  4/1
Introduction to Geology

4/2
Intro to Plate Tectonics

Lab: Intro to Plate Tectonics

4/3
Intro to Plate Tectonics cont.

Intro ppt

Scientific Method ppt

Plate Tectonics ppt

2

4/6
Atoms, Elements & Minerals

Email and Obs/Int Assignment due

4/7
Physical Properties of Minerals

Lab: Minerals
(Prelab Due)

(Last day to withdraw without a "W")

4/8
Common Rock-Forming Minerals

4/9
Common Uses of Minerals Discussion
(Assignment Due)

Lab: Minerals (cont.)

4/10
Origin and Behavior of Magma

Atoms etc. ppt

Mineral Properties ppt

Common Minerals ppt

Magma ppt

3
4/13
Magma & Igneous Rocks
4/14
Lab: Igneous Rocks
(Prelab Due)
4/15
Plutons and Volcanoes

4/16
Volcanoes

Lab: Igneous Rocks (cont.)

4/17
Volcanoes and Volcanic Hazards
(Video)

Igneous rocks ppt

Plutons and volcanoes ppt

Volcanoes 2 ppt

4

Earth Week

4/20
Exam 1
4/21
Guest Lecture: Meet in N201
4/22
Guest Lecture: Meet in C130
4/23
No Class
4/24
Guest Lecture: Meet in C130
 
5

4/27
Weathering and Erosion

4/28
Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks
(Prelab Due)

Lab: Sedimentary Rocks

4/29
Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks

4/30
Sedimentary Environments

Lab: Sedimentary Rocks (cont.)

5/1
Discussion 1: Fossil Fuels

Earth Week/ Discussion Assignment Due

Weathering ppt

Sedimentary Rocks ppts

Sedimentary Structures ppt

Fossil Fuels ppt

6
5/4
Metamorphism & Metamorphic Rocks

5/5
Geologic Time: Relative Time

Lab: Metamorphic Rocks
(Prelab Due)

5/6
Geologic Time: Absolute Time
5/7
Lab : Geologic Time
5/8
No Class

Metamorphic Rocks ppt

Relative Time ppt

Absolute Time ppt

7
5/11
Deforming the Earth
5/12
Lab: Cougar Mountain Field Trip 1
(Prelab Due)
5/13
Earthquakes

5/14
Class canceled

5/15
Earthquakes

(Radiocarbon assignment due)

Deformation ppt

Earthquake Basics ppt

 

8
5/18
Exam 2

5/19
Lab: Earthquakes
(Prelab Due)

 

5/20
Earthquakes

5/21
Lab: Cougar Mountain Field Trip 2
(Prelab Due)

5/22
Interior of the Earth

(Last day to withdraw)

Washington Quakes ppt

Earthquakes Effects ppt

Interior of the Earth ppt

9
5/25
No Class

5/26
Class Canceled

 

5/27
Class Canceled
5/28
Lab: Plate Tectonics
(Prelab Due)

5/29
Laandslides
See Landsslides ppt next week
10
6/1
Landslides and the Hydrologic Cycle

6/2
Lab: Landslides in Seattle
(Prelab Due)

Discussion 2: Summary

6/3
Plate Tectonics Revisited
6/4
Lab: Geologic Tools - Maps
(Prelab Due)
6/5
Rivers

Landslides ppt

Plate Tectonics Sumamry ppt

Rivers 1 ppt

11
6/8
Rivers and Floods
6/9
Lab: Rivers
6/10
Groundwater

6/11
Lab: Groundwater

6/12
Groundwater & Glaciers

Final Exam Review

Rivers 2 ppt

Groundwater ppt

12
6/15
Ice Ages and Climate Change

6/16
Final Exam
11:30-1:20
6/17 6/18
BCC Graduation
  Glaciers ppt

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Tuesday, June 16, 2009