GEOL 101 - The Dynamic Earth

Course Schedule for Fall 2004

(updated 1/13/2004)

This schedule will change!!  The new versions will be distributed via the web site http://tanasi.gg.utk.edu/courses/101

 

Dates/

 

Reading

Lecture Topics

Lab Topics

Weeks

 

Assign.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1/13

 

 

Getting Organized: Registration and textbook questions.

 

1/15

 

Chapter 1

What is geology anyway?

 

 

 

 

Earthquakes and plate tectonics on the 3rd rock from the sun.

 


 

Part I. Focus on Minerals and Rocks

 

 

 

 

 

1/20

 

Chapter 3

A Little Chemistry, Crystals & Minerals

 

1/21

 

 

Wednesday lab sections

Lab 1 topic- Nonsilicate Minerals

1/22

 

Chapter 2 & 4

Rocks, the Rock Cycle & Plate Tectonics

Lab 1 topic- Nonsilicate Minerals


 

 

 

 

 

1/27

 

Chapter 4 & 5

Hot, Melted (Geologists Call Them Igneous) Rocks

 

1/28

 

 

Wednesday lab sections

Lab 2 topic- Silicate Minerals

1/29

 

Chapter 5

Hot, Melted (Geologists Call Them Igneous) Rocks

Lab 2 topic- Silicate Minerals


 

 

 

 

 

2/3

 

Chapter 6

When the Hot, Liquid Rocks (Magmas) Leak Out: Volcanism

 

2/4

 

 

Wednesday lab sections

Lab 3 topic- Igneous Rocks

2/5

 

Chapter 7

Dissolving and Breaking (Weathering) Rocks Makes Sediment

Lab 3 topic- Igneous Rocks


 

 

 

 

 

2/10

 

Chapter 8

Most Sediment Ends Up in Water, Eventually Forming New Rocks (Diagenesis)

 

2/11

 

 

Wednesday lab sections

Lab 4 topic- Sedimentary Rocks

2/12

 

Chapter 9

Cooked (Metamorphic) Rocks

Lab 4 topic- Sedimentary Rocks


 

 

 

 

 

2/17

 

Chapters 1-7

First Lecture Exam

 

2/18

 

 

Wednesday lab sections

Lab 5 topic- Metamorphic Rocks

2/19

 

Chapter 10

Geology & Time

Lab 5 topic- Metamorphic Rocks


 

Part II. Internal Processes and External Effects

 

 

 

 

 

2/24

 

Chapter 11

Bent Rocks (Folds)

 

2/25

 

 

Wednesday lab sections

LAB MIDTERM EXAM

2/26

 

Chapter 11

Fractured Rocks (Joints and Faults)

LAB MIDTERM EXAM


 

 

 

 

 

3/2

 

 

Review for Second Exam

 

3/3

 

 

Wednesday lab sections

Lab 6 topic- Structures: Folds and Faults

3/4

 

Chapters 1-11

New Information!!

Second Lecture Exam

Lab 6 topic- Structures: Folds and Faults


 

 

 

 

 

3/9

 

 

Spring Break!

 

3/10

 

 

Spring Break!

 

3/11

 

 

Spring Break!

 


 

 

 

 

 

3/16

 

Chapter 19

Earthquakes and Ground Shaking

 

3/17

 

 

Wednesday lab sections

 Lab 7 topic- Topographic Maps

3/18

 

Chapter 19

Where Quakes Occur, Damage, and Prediction

 Lab 7 topic- Topographic Maps


 

Part III. Surface Processes and Features

 

 

 

 

 

3/23

 

Chapter 20

Putting the Pieces of the Puzzle Together:
Plate Tectonics and Alfred Wegener

 

3/24

 

 

Wednesday lab sections

 Lab 8 topic- Geologic Maps

3/25

 

Chapter 21

A Picture of Earth's Interior

 Lab 8 topic- Geologic Maps


 

 

 

 

 

3/30

 

Chapter 12

Unstable Terrain and Landslides

 

3/31

 

 

Wednesday lab sections

Lab 9 topic- Earthquakes

4/1

 

Chapter 13

Springs and wells, caves, sinkholes and pollution

Lab 9 topic- Earthquakes

 

4/3

 

 

Optional field trip (Saturday version)

 

4/4

 

 

Optional field trip (Sunday version)

 


 

 

 

 

 

4/6

 

Chapter 14

Rivers, floods, levees, and the Mississippi delta

 

4/7

 

 

Wednesday lab sections

Lab 10 topic- Plate Tectonics

4/8

 

Ch 12-14, & 19-21

New Information!!

Third Lecture Exam

Lab 10 topic- Plate Tectonics


 

Part IV. Planetary Geology

 

 

 

 

 

4/13

 

web page

Earth's Moon

 

4/14

 

 

Wednesday lab sections

Lab 11 topic- Geologic Maps

4/15

 

web page

Comets (very large dirty snowballs) and
Asteroids (basalt travels well)

Lab 11 topic- Geologic Maps


 

 

 

 

 

4/20

 

web page

Venus

 

4/21

 

 

Wednesday lab sections

Lab Final Exam!

4/22

 

web page

Mars

Lab Final Exam!


 

 

Final Exam

4/27

 

 

Review for Lecture Final

 

5/4

 

Tuesday

Lecture Final Exam 12:30-2:30 pm