Lecture dates, Midterm dates, Reading Topics

Below are hyperlinks to my personal notes and the images that I showed in class. Please note that I will upload my lecture presentations after I have given that lecture- I finalize content right up to the day of the lecture. If I fall behin with web content, pester me to update it. Note that since we only meet 14 times this semester, midterms will be administered at the start of a class, and will be followed by lectures.

Lecture notes here (Karner's personal notes)

Topics and hyperlinks to PowerPoint images below

Section 1: Ancient disasters that formed our world

Jan 31 Introduction to class, recent disasters. Indian Ocean Tsunami, La Conchita landslide. Supernovae, solar system formation, Earth+Moon formation, Earth's heat

Feb 7 Ch. 3 Building minerals, periodic table, chemical bonding, radioactivity,Ch. 2 Earth's crust: Igneous rocks, SiO4 tetrahedron, rock density.

Feb 14 Ch. 2: Seismology and studying Earth's interior: Seismic waves, body waves, surface waves, wave reflection and refraction, Earth's internal layering. Ch. 2 plate tectonics, plate boundaries, California's place in the plate-tectonic framework, faults (3 types), subduction, rock cycle.

Feb 21 Presidents' Day - no class

Feb 28 Off-book Impacts and extinctions- Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction, Raup and Sepkoski, Permian-Triassic extinction

March 7 Midterm 1: Disasters that formed our world

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Section 2: Modern disasters: The internal heat engine

Ch. 5: Earthquakes: Elastic rebound theory, Richter Magnitude, liquefaction, tsunamis.

March 14 Ch. 5 (continued) San Andreas fault system; hazards, prevention, Earthquakes: touring the world for context

March 21 Ch. 6: Ch. 6: Volcanoes: plate-tectonic context, some explosive, some not…why? Prediction, U.S.:volcanoes: Mt. St. Helens, Yellowstone, Long Valley, Hawaii, movie: Volcano'ds Deadly Warning (on reserve in library for those of you who left early), volcanic seismicity

March 28 Spring Break - no instruction

Section 3: Modern disasters: The Sun and people: external heat engines

April 4(NOTE THAT THIS LECTURE CONTENT WILL BE ON THE THIRD MIDTERM, NOT NEXT WEEK'S MIDTERM! Ch. 16.4, 16.6 The Global warming debate. Evidence for 20th Century global warming, IPCC Report, climate over past 1000 years, Little Ice Age, Big Ice Ages, Last 2 Million years of climate change. Causes for climate change.

April 11 Midterm 2: Modern Disasters- internal heat engine

April 18 Ch. 8 Slope processes, landslides, subsidence, Weathering, Internal and external processes in battle: gravity vs. water, lahars, prevention

Ch. 7 (started) :Rivers and flooding- great floods, river processes

Note added April 18: We all decided to move the Third Midterm to May 2, at the start of class. This third midterm will cover lecture materials from april 4, 11, 18 and 25th. If you need to make arrangements for a different midterm day. please contact me right away.

April 25: , flood prevention, Ch. 9 Coastal processes, beach erosion, impermanence of the coastline, human intervention

May 2 Midterm 3: Modern Disasters- external heat engine

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Section 4: Weather and energy resources

Ch. 16 Weather- surface winds, coriolis, ocean circulation

Hadley circulation, deserts, Midlatitude cyclones, El Niño, Tornadoes, hurricanes

May 9 Ch. 16+ Severe weather, hail, fog, rain shadows, drought.

May 16 Ch. 13 Energy Resources Coal, oil and natural gas, Middle East and California resources, Methane hydrates, nuclear and solar power

May 23 (5:00-6:50 p.m.): Midterm 4 (Final exam): Weather and energy resources