Geosciences 251
Physical Geology
Lecture:
Tuesday + Thursday 11 – 12:15
Instructors:
Dr. Paul Kapp: pkapp@email.arizona.edu; 520-626-8763
Office Hours: Tues 1-2; Wed 3-4
Dr. Paul Goodman: pgoodman@email.arizona.edu; 520-621-8484
Labs (in GS 201):
1A/2 Monday
1B
Tuesday
1C
Wednesday
1D
Thursday
Spring 2013
Speech and Hearing Sciences, Rm. 205
12 – 2:50 (Honors)
12:30 – 3:15
12 – 2:50
12:30 – 3:15
Paul Goodman
Andrea Stevens
Brandon Bishop
Erin Harris-Parks
Preceptors:
Creed Goff
Ryan Brody
Eric Browne
Clay Campbell
cgoff1@email.arizona.edu
imbrody@email.arizona.edu
browne@email.arizona.edu
clayc@email.arizona.edu
Textbook:
Lab text:
Required: Understanding Earth (6th edition) by Grotzinger & Jordan (2009)
None.
pgoodman@email.arizona.edu
andreastevens@email.arizona.edu
brandontbishop@email.arizona.edu
ehparks@email.arizona.edu
Monday Lab
Tuesday Lab
Wed Lab
Thursday Lab
Lecture Attendance: You should attend! Material covered in lecture provides the principal basis for exam and
quiz questions. There will be seven quizzes throughout the semester on D2L, the dates of which will be
announced only in lecture!
Reading Assignments: Required textbook readings are provided here and should be finished before the subject
is covered in lecture.
Lecture Exams and Quizzes: There will be two mid-term lecture exams (100 pts each). A cumulative final
(150 pts) is scheduled for May 7, 10:30 – 12:30 in our regular classroom. There will be seven quizzes on D2L
(10 pts each).
Make-ups: Exams can be made up only if the excuse is legitimate (documented illness, conflict with another
University-related event). Labs may or may not be made up, depending on your lab instructor’s policy.
Field Trips: There will be three all-day field trips, each of which will be run on a Saturday and a Sunday (see
lab schedule). You are required to attend only two of these trips, but you may go on all 3 if you like (and take
the highest 2 grades). THERE ARE NO MAKE-UPS FOR THESE TRIPS, PERIOD.
Honors section: The honors students in this class will attend the same lectures as the rest of the class, but are
encouraged to attend the Monday lab. Honors students will participate in a research project.
Laboratory: This class has a required laboratory taught in Gould-Simpson Rm. 201. The lab instructors are in
charge of grading the labs and assigning your final lab grade.
Course grade: Letter grades are awarded in the usual way: 89.5-100=A, 79.5-89.5=B, 69.5-79.5=C and so
forth. A total of 800 points are available in this class, composed of: 200 pts: two mid-term exams (100 points
each); 150 pts: one cumulative final; 70 pts: seven quizzes (10 points each); 100 pts: two Saturday/Sunday field
trips (50 pts each); 280 pts: Lab exercises + lab exams.
A few tips for doing well: 1) attend all lectures, labs and at least 2 fieldtrips; 2) take careful notes; 3) keep ahead
of the required reading; and 4) come to office hours if you have questions. Lecture attendance is vital for a good
grade in this class, since the exams are centered more on lecture material than textbook readings (but you are
still responsible for knowing the reading material).
Students Requiring Special Accommodation: Students requiring accommodation in testing or note taking
must notify me and deliver to me a Disability Resource Center faculty letter within the first few days of the
course, so that we can make preparations.
Website: D2L.
CHEATING
Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona
1. Underlying Principle
Unless specified in the assignment, all work and all words used to describe the results of an assignment must be
the student’s own. No material, whether paragraphs, sentences or phrases may be copied from another student
or from any external source. External material that is used, usually for a specific reason, must be accompanied
by a citation of the source.
2. Individual Assignments
In some cases, students will be told that no conferring is allowed; if that is the case, students must not discuss
their work with others, or show others their work. More often, Geosciences faculty will encourage discussion
among students, because this facilitates learning. In such a case, any ideas and concepts may be discussed
openly, but the student is still responsible for his/her own work turned in for grading. Identical paragraphs,
sentences, phrases, or notations on a map/illustration may not be used by two or more students. The best way to
avoid this is for students to discuss the assignment, but then separate from each other in order to produce the
work to be turned in for grading, and not share electronic files using e-mail, flash drives or other method.
3. Group Assignments
Geosciences faculty routinely give two kinds of group assignments. Category 1 is a group assignment where
students work in parallel on the same material (for instance a mapping exercise), but then turn in individual
work for grading. Discussion is encouraged, but it is essential that each student first perform the written or map
work individually, after which ideas may be exchanged and interpretations modified before the work is graded.
Copying of another’s work is prohibited, and this can be avoided in the same way as for individual assignments.
Category 2 is a group assignment where students work explicitly as teams, perhaps witheach member
performing parts of a complex task (such as a geophysical or analytical experiment), and a combined product
will be graded with equal scores for all members of the team. In this case, full discussion of the work, before
any write-up takes place, is expected. The instructor will inform students whether a group assignment is
Category 1 or 2.
4. Reporting of Cheating
All incidents of cheating or plagiarism, including facilitating of same, will be reported to the Dean of Students’
office and the College of Science. As well as the violations in take-home or field assignments detailed above,
this will include any violations during quizzes and exams. The University’s procedure and forms give students
an opportunity to explain to the instructor, and to comment upon (or rebut) any accusations in writing before the
forms are turned in. But the forms can be turned in, reporting the cheating incident, even if the student fails to
meet with the instructor ordoes not countersign the paperwork.
5. Expectation of Student Integrity
Instructors in the Department of Geosciences set a high standard for themselves as educators, and they expect
that students, both in general education and majors’ classes, will do the same for their own education. Thus
cheating and plagiarism will not be tolerated.
6. UA Code of Academic Integrity
This document is a statement of what students and faculty should expect within Department of Geosciences, or
in general education courses offered by the Department. It does not replace the UA’s Code of Academic
Integrity, which can be read in full at <http://deanofstudents.arizona.edu/codeofacademicintegrity>
LECTURE SCHEDULE
Date
Lecture Topic
January
10
1. Introduction/Solar system development
15
2. Plate Tectonics
17
3. Minerals
22
4. Rocks: records of geologic processes
24
5. Igneous Rocks
29
6. Magmatic Processes
31
7. Volcanism
February
5
8. Weathering and Erosion/Sed. Rocks
7
9. Sedimentary Rocks
12
10. Metamorphic Rocks
14
Mid-term #1
19
11. Geologic Time
21
12. Rock Deformation
26
13. Mass Wasting
28
14. Water in and on the Earth (PG)
March
5
15. River Systems
7
16. Glaciers & surface processes (PG)
13, 15 SPRING BREAK
April
May
Reading Assignment
Chapter 1/9
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 4
Chapter 12
Chapter 16
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 8
Chapter 7
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 21
19
21
26
28
2
4
9
11
16
18
23
25
30
17. Ocean processes and geology (PG)
Chapter 20
18. Ocean processes and geology (PG)
Chapter 20
19. Desert landscapes and surface processes Chapter 19
Mid-term #2
20. Earthquakes
Chapter 13
21. The Earth’s Interior
Chapter 14
22. Plate Tectonics
Chapter 2
23. Plate Tectonics
Chapter 2
24. Evolution of Continents
Chapter 10
25. Energy (PG)
Chapter 23
26. Energy/Mineral Resources (PG?)
Chapter 23
27. Mineral Resources
Chapter 23
28. Linkages among rock deformation, surface processes, and climate
7
FINAL EXAM, 10:30AM – 12:30, this room
Geos 251 LAB SCHEDULE
Week ofJanuary 7
Subject
NO LABS THIS WEEK
Points (280)
January 14
1. Minerals and their Physical Properties
20
January 21
NO LABS THIS WEEK – MLK Day
January 28
2. Igneous Rocks
20
February 4
3. Sedimentary Rocks
20
February 11
4. Metamorphic Rocks
20
February 18
ROCK & MINERAL EXAM
5. Topographic Maps
40
20
Sat/Sun
Feb 23/24
FIELD TRIP – Tucson Mountains
9 AM – 6 PM
February 26
NO LABS THIS WEEK
March 5
6. Structural Geology
March 12
SPRING BREAK
March 19
NO LABS THIS WEEK
March 26
7. Earthquakes
April 1
NO LABS THIS WEEK
Sat/Sun
April 6/7
FIELD TRIP – French Joe Canyon
9 AM – 6 PM
April 9
8. Plate Tectonics
April 16
NO LABS THIS WEEK
April 23
FINAL LAB EXAM
Sat/Sun
April 27/28
FIELD TRIP – Catalina Mountains
9 AM – 6 PM
20
20
20
80