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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