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EOSC 221: Lecture Syllabus 2015

Location: ESB 1013

Lecture Times: Tues & Thurs 9.30-10.30 AM

 

 

Date

Topic

Lecturer

Textbook

Reading (pages)

Additional material

1

Week 1-1

 Introduction

Kopylova

 

 

2

Week 1-2

 Igneous morphology and structures

Kopylova

 Chapters 1, 4

Bring your clicker to this and all future classes!

3

Week 2-1

 Classification of Igneous Rocks

Kopylova

 Chapters 2, 3

 

4

Week 2-2

 Igneous Processes: Melting

Kopylova

 Chapter 5, 7

 

5

Week 3-1

 Igneous processes: Crystallization

Kopylova

 Chapter 6

 

6

Week 3-2

 Quiz on plate tectonics. Layered Mafic Intrusions and Basalts I

Kopylova

 Chapter 6

 

7

Week 4-1

 No class – Go to the Cordilleran Roundup instead!

 

 

 

 

8

Week 4-2

 Basalts II

Sherman

 Ch 8

 Ch 9 (177-180)

 

 

9

Week 5-1

 Granites and Andesites

Kopylova

 Ch.9 (168-189) 

 Ch.4 (84-86),

 Ch10 (202-206)

 

10

Week 5-2

 Midterm I on Igneous Rocks and Minerals

Kopylova

 

  List of mineral formulas and rock names to memorize

 

 

 For all information regarding sediments see here

 

 

 

 

11

Week 6-1

 Clastic Sedimentary Rocks

Sherman

 244-256,  273-277

 

12

Week 6-2

Clastic Sedimentary Rocks 2

Sherman

 

 

 

Week 7

 Reading break

 

 

 

13

Week 8-1

 Clastic Sedimentary Rocks 3

Sherman

 249-256;  273-277

 

14

Week 8-2

 

 Clastic Sedimentary Rocks 4

Sherman

 283 - 287

 

15

Week 9-1

 Sedimentary structures

Sherman

 

 

16

Week 9-2

 Carbonates

Sherman

 No required reading

 

17

Week 10-1

 Evaporites and diagenesis

Sherman

315 - 318

  

18

Week 10-2

 Midterm II on sedimentary rocks

 

Sherman

 

 List of mineral formulas and rock names to memorize

19

Week 11-1

 Types of metamorphism

Kopylova

   Chapter 17 (339-342, 347-348) & Chapter 18  (359-361)

 

20

Week 11-2

 Metamorphic processes I: Microscale n

Kopylova

 Chapter 18 (365-371), 19 ( 388-395), 20

 

21

Week 12-1

 Metamorphic processes II: Megascale    II

Kopylova

 Chapter 17 (348-351)

 

22

Week 12-2

 Metamorphic facies

Kopylova

 Chapter 17 (343-346,  351-357)

 

23

Week 13-1

 Facies Series

Kopylova

 Chapter 17 (346-347)

 

24

Week 13-2

 Metabasites

Kopylova

 415-422 & 430-441

 

25

Week 14-1

 Metapelites

Kopylova

Chapter 25

 

25

Week 14-2

 Petrology Review Exercise

Kopylova

Bring all your notes

 List of mineral formulas and rock names to memorize

 

 

 

 

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