Lecture Schedule – EPS050 – Fall 2011
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LECTURE SUBJECT |
DATE |
READING |
LABS & FIELDTRIPS |
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Course Organization and Introduction |
08/25 |
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No Lab First Week |
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Lecture 1: Building a Planet and Plate Tectonics |
08/30 |
Ch 1+2 |
No Lab Second Week |
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Lecture 2: Minerals – Building Blocks of Rocks |
09/01 |
Ch 3 |
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Lecture 3: Rocks – Records of Geologic Processes |
09/06 |
Ch 3 |
(1) Properties of Minerals and Rocks |
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Lecture 4: Weathering, Soils and Erosion |
09/08 |
Ch. 16 |
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Lecture 5: Igneous Rocks – Solids from Melts |
09/13 |
Ch 4 |
(2) Igneous and Metamorphic Rocks |
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Lecture 6: Volcanism |
09/15 |
Ch 12 |
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Lecture 7: Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks |
09/20 |
Ch 5 |
(3) Sedimentary Rocks |
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Lecture 8: Metamorphic Rocks |
09/22 |
Ch 6 |
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FIELDTRIP 1 |
09/24 |
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FIELDTRIP 2 |
09/25 |
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Lecture 9: The Rock Record and the Geologic Time Scale |
09/27 |
Ch 8 |
(4) Maps and Geologic Structures |
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Lecture 10: Folds, Faults, and Other Records of Rock Deformation |
09/29 |
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MIDTERM 1 |
10/04 |
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No Lab This Week |
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Lecture 11: Tectonics: Evolution of the Earth's Continents |
10/06 |
Ch 10 |
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Lecture 12: Earthquakes I |
10/11 |
Ch 13 |
(5) Geology of the Berkeley Hills |
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Lecture 13: Earthquakes II |
10/13 |
Ch 13 |
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Lecture 14: Exploring Earth's Interior |
10/18 |
Ch 14 |
(6) Measuring Earthquakes |
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Lecture 15: Mass Wasting |
10/20 |
Ch 16 |
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Lecture 16: The Hydrologic Cycle and Ground Water |
10/25 |
Ch 17 |
(7) Earth's Magnetic Field |
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Lecture 17: Rivers – Transport to the Oceans |
10/27 |
Ch 18 |
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MIDTERM 2 |
11/01 |
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No Lab This Week |
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Lecture 18: Winds and Deserts |
11/03 |
Ch 19 |
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Lecture 19: Glaciers |
11/08 |
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(8) Strawberry Creek Tour and Fluvial Processes |
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Lecture 20: Oceans |
11/10 |
Ch 20,21 |
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Lecture 21: Landscapes – Tectonic and Climate Interactions |
11/15 |
Ch 22 |
(9) Hayward Fault Tour |
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Lecture 22: Energy & Mineral Resources |
11/22 |
Ch 23 |
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Lecture 23: Earth Systems and Cycle |
11/17 |
Ch 15, 21, 23 |
No Lab This Week |
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Thanksgiving Holiday |
11/24 |
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Lecture 24: Solar System |
11/29 |
Ch 9 |
(10) Optional Makeup Lab – North Berkeley Walking Tour |
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Lecture 25: Life |
12/01 |
Ch 11 |
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Reading/Review/Recitation |
12/05-09 |
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FINAL EXAM |
12/13 |
Room:TBD |
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