Geography 360
GEOMORPHOLOGY
FALL 2006 Mondays 2-3:50, Wednesdays 2-5:50 p.m.
Stevenson 3036
TENTATIVE SCHEDULE (Topics are correct, page numbers will be adjusted for 2nd edition)
Readings from Easterbrook, Surface Processes and Landforms
DATE
LECTURE TOPIC
READING
W 8/23
Introduction, Endogenic and Exogenic Processes
M 8/28
Geomorphic Concepts
1-11
W 8/30
Physical and Chemical Weathering (Start First Lab Today)
13-39
M 9/4
Labor Day, No Class
W 9/6
Video, Cracking the Ice Age (weathering)
40-50
M 9/11
Effects of Weathering, Soils
40-50
W 9/13
Behavior of Rock and Soil (Lab 1 due)
57-64, 186-189
M 9/18
Mass Wasting Processes
64-91
W 9/20
Field Trip, Mass Wasting, Soils (Lab 3, Field Report)
64-91
M 9/25
Finish Mass Wasting processes
W 9/27
Types, mitigation of mass movements, Review for First Midterm
M 10/2
First Midterm Flow Velocity, Slope and Load
97-114
W 10/4
Stream Channels (Begin New Lab 2 due today, Soils Maps)
114-122
M 10/9
Drainage Systems and Patterns, Pediments (Lab 3 due today)
123-137
W 10/11
Field Trip, Streams, Gullies, Faults, Mass Movements (Lab 5)
145-162
M 10/16
Alluvial Fans, Deltas, River Terraces (Lab 2 Soils due today)
162-181
W 10/18
Fluvial Continued(Begin Lab 4, Fluvial systems)
191-211
M 10/23
Fluvial Continued
W 10/25
Finished Fluvial, Review (Lab 5 due today)
M 10/30
SECOND MIDTERM
W 11/1
Tectonic Landforms, Folded Strata, Uncomformities (Lab 4, Fluvial, due today)
216-241
Sat 11/4
Field Trip, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Russian River, field methods (rain or shine)
M 11/6
Effects of Joints and Faults
248-271
W 11/8
Volcanics, Igneous Landforms
274-295
M 11/13
Earthquakes, Faults
W 11/15
Glacial Processes
307-329
M 11/20
Glacial Landforms, Alpine Glaciers (Start Lab 6)
334-372
W 11/22
Thanksgiving Break
M 11/27
Glacial Landforms, Intro Coastal Processes and Landforms
411-446 W 11/29
Field Trip, Coastal and Eolian Features (Lab 7)
452-470
M 12/4
Eolian Processes and Features (Lab 6 due today)
472-493
W 12/6
Catch up and Review, (Term Projects, Lab 7 due today)
M 12/11
FINAL Stevenson 3036 2-3:50 p.m.
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