Geology 100: General Geology
Spring, 2009
Instructors: Brad Singer and Chuck DeMets
T-Th 11:00-11:50 am & 1:20-2:10 pm, Weeks Hall AB20
LECTURE SYLLABUS
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Topics
Introduction to Geology and Geologists
Human Impacts on the Environment: Energy Resources
Plate Tectonics
Plate Tectonics-cont.
Earth Materials: Minerals
Earth Materials: Rocks
Igneous Rocks
Volcanoes
Volcanoes
FIRST EXAM (20%)
Sedimentary Rocks and Basins
Clocks in Rocks: Stratigraphy and Relative Ages
Clocks in Rocks: Radio-Isotopic Dating and Geochronology
Metamorphic Rocks
Deformation: Folding and Fracturing of Rocks
Earthquakes and their Consequences
SPRING RECESS
Earth's Interior: Structure and Dynamics
Earth's Interior: The Geodynamo and Magnetic Field
Evolution of continents: Geology of Wisconsin
SECOND EXAM (20%)
Early Earth History and Earliest Life on Earth
Geobiology: Life Interacts with Earth Materials
Hydrologic cycle
Streams
The Climate System
Glaciers
Global Warming: An Inconvenient Truth
Evolution of continents: Geology of Wisconsin
Weathering, Erosion: Climate and Tectonics
Weathering (continued)
1:20 pm lec: FINAL EXAM, 12:25 pm CUMULATIVE (35%)
11:00 am lec: FINAL EXAM, 12:25 pm CUMULATIVE (35%)
Required Textbook: Understanding Earth 5th Ed., Grotzinger et al. 2007, Freeman.
Grading:
75% Exams:
20% Ist Midterm
20% 2nd Midterm
35% Final Exam
25% Discussion section exercises & participation
office hours by appointment
chuck@geology.wisc.edu
bsinger@geology.wisc.edu
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Ch. 2
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Ch. 3
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Ch. 4
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Room AB20
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