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| GSCI320 Home | Syllabus | Schedule | Homework Blackboard Login Required: Quizzes | Gradebook |
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| Week | Date - Lecture Notes | Podcasts |
Lecture Topics | Reading Assignments from Blatt, Tracy, & Owens |
| Week 1 | Wed 1/13 - Lecture #1 Outline | Podcast |
Welcome Back Syllabus Handout Rock & Mineral Review/pre-Petrology assessment |
None |
| Fri 1/15 - Lecture #2 Outline | Podcast |
The Occurrence of Sedimentary Rocks | Chapter 11 | |
| Week 2 | Mon 1/18 No Lecture |
Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday | "I Have a Dream" |
| Wed 1/20 - Lecture #3 Outline | Podcast |
Weathering Review Clastic Sedimentary Rocks Classification Conglomerates |
Chapter #12 | |
| Fri 1/22 - Lecture #4 Outline | Podcast |
Clastic Sedimentary Rocks Classification Sandstone Classification |
Chapter #13 | |
| Week 3 | Mon 1/25 - Lecture #5 Outline | Podcast |
Clastic Sedimentary Rocks Classification Sandstone Classification |
Chapter #13 |
| Wed 1/27 - Lecture #6 Outline | Podcast |
Sandstone Classification (Continued) Sandstone Diagenesis |
Chapter #13 | |
| Fri 1/29 - Lecture #7 Outline | Podcast |
Mudstones | Chapter #14 | |
| Week 4 | Mon 2/1 - Lecture #8 Outline | Podcast |
Limestones & Dolostones | Chapter #15 |
| Wed 2/3 - Lecture #9 Outline | Podcast |
Limestones & Dolostones | Chapter #15 | |
| Fri 2/5 - Lecture #10 Outline | Podcast |
Limestones & Dolostones | Chapter #15 | |
| Week 5 | Mon 2/8 - Lecture #11 Outline | Podcast |
Evaporites | Chapter #16 |
| Wed 2/10 - Lecture #12 Outline | Podcast |
Cherts, BIFs, Phosphates | Chapter #16 | |
| Fri 2/12 - Lecture #13 Outline | Podcast |
Igneous Rocks Preview | Chapter #1 | |
| Week 6 | Mon 2/15 - Lecture #14 Outline | Podcast |
Exam #1 - Study Guide | Chapters 11-16 |
| Wed 2/17 - Lecture #15 Outline | Podcast |
Intrusive and Extrusive Bodies Field Relations |
Chapter #2 | |
| Fri 2/19 - Lecture #16 Outline | Podcast |
Igneous Rock Textures | Chapter #2 | |
| Week 7 | Mon 2/22 - Lecture #17 Outline | Podcast |
The Big Chart Viscosity |
Chapters #3 & #4 |
| Wed 2/24 - Lecture #18 Outline | Podcast |
Classification of Igneous Rocks CIPW Norm Calculation |
Chapter #3 | |
| Fri 2/26 - Lecture #19 Outline | Podcast |
Classification of Igneous Rocks CIPW Norm Calculation |
Chapter #3 | |
| Week 8 | Mon 3/1 - Lecture #20 Outline | Podcast |
Field Relationships Physical Properties of Magmas |
Chapter #4 |
| Wed 3/3 - Lecture #21 Outline | Podcast |
Magma Differentiation Processes Overview Introduction to Phase Diagrams Applying the Phase Rule and Lever Rule |
Chapters #5 & #6 | |
| Fri 3/5 - Lecture #22 Outline | Podcast |
Equilibrium Crystallization in Binary Systems Fractional Crystallization in Binary Systems Equilibrium Crystallization in Ternary Systems |
Chapters #5 & #6 | |
| Week 9 | Mon 3/8 - Lecture #23 Outline | Podcast |
Equilibrium Crystallization in Binary Systems Fractional Crystallization in Binary Systems Equilibrium Crystallization in Ternary Systems |
Chapters #5 & #6 |
| Wed 3/10 - Lecture #24 Outline | Podcast |
Equilibrium Crystallization in Binary Systems Fractional Crystallization in Binary Systems Equilibrium Crystallization in Ternary Systems |
Chapters #5 & #6 | |
| Fri 3/12 - Lecture #25 Outline | Podcast |
Mid-Ocean Ridge Basalts (MORB) Ocean Island Basalts (OIB) Continental Flood Basalts (CFB) |
Chapters #8 | |
| Spring Break No Class |
"My advice to you is to start drinking heavily." -- Bluto, in Animal House |
Catch Up! | |
| "Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son." -- Dean Wormer, Ibid |
Read Ahead! | ||
| Week 10 | Mon 3/22 - Lecture #26 Outline | Podcast |
The Mantle | Chapter #7 |
| Wed 3/24 - Lecture #27 Outline | Podcast |
The Mantle | Chapter #7 | |
| Fri 3/26 - Lecture #28 Outline | Podcast |
Exam #2 - Study Guide | Chapters 1-6 | |
| Week 11 | Mon 3/29 - Lecture #29 Outline | Podcast |
Oceanic Basalts MORB and OIB |
Chapter #8 |
| Wed 3/31 - Lecture #30 Outline | Podcast |
Oceanic Basalts MORB and OIB |
Chapter #8 | |
| Fri 4/2 - Lecture #31 Outline | Podcast |
M&M Magma Chamber & Fractional Crystallization | Chapter #9 | |
| Week 12 | Mon 4/5 - Lecture #32 Outline | Podcast |
Island Arc Magmatism | Chapter #9 |
| Wed 4/7 - Lecture #33 Outline | Podcast |
Island Arc and Continental Arc Magmatism | Chapter #9 | |
| Fri 4/9 - Lecture #34 Outline | Podcast |
Igneous Rocks of the Continental Lithosphere | Chapter #10 | |
| Week 13 | Mon 4/12 - Lecture #35 Outline | Podcast |
Layered Mafic Intrusions | Chapter #10 |
| Wed 4/14 - Lecture #36 Outline | Podcast |
Layered Mafic Intrusions | Chapter #6 | |
| Fri 4/16 - Lecture #37 Outline | Podcast |
More Igneous Rocks of the Continental Lithosphere | Chapter #8 | |
| Week 14 | Mon 4/19 - Lecture #38 Outline | Podcast |
Defining Metamorphism Pioneers - History of Metamorphism Types of Metamorphism |
Chapter #17 |
| Wed 4/21 - Lecture #39 Outline | Podcast |
Metamorphic Minerals and Textures Types of Metamorphic Rocks Isograds, Grades, Zones Metamorphic Facies |
Chapter #18 & #19 | |
| Fri 4/23 - Lecture #40 Outline | Podcast |
Exam #3 - Study Guide | Chapters 7-10 | |
| Week 15 | Mon 4/26 - Lecture #41 Outline | Podcast |
Mineral Assemblages and Equilibrium Reactions, the Phase Rule, and the Petrogenetic Grid |
Chapters 17-20 |
| Wed 4/28 - Lecture #42 Outline | Podcast |
Reactions, the Phase Rule, and the Petrogenetic Grid Metamorphic Field Gradients and P-T-t paths |
Chapters 17-20 | |
| Fri 4/30 - Lecture #43 Outline | Podcast |
Graphical Representations of Mineral Assemblages Metamorphic Variables: Pressure, Temperature, and Fluid Types of Metamorphic Reactions |
Chapters 17-20 | |
| Week 16 | Mon 5/3 - Lecture #44 Outline | Podcast |
Graphical Representations of Mineral Assemblages Metamorphic Variables: Pressure, Temperature, and Fluid Types of Metamorphic Reactions |
Chapters 17-20 |
| Wed 5/5 - Lecture #45 Outline | Podcast |
Metapelites & Metamafics | Chapters 21-22 | |
| Fri 5/7 - Lecture #46 Outline | Podcast |
Meta Calc-Silicates | Chapter #23 | |
| Exam Week | Mon. 5/10, 1:30pm | Exam #4 - Study Guide | |
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