Welcome to the Earth Sciences 020 Lecture Resources page. All lectures for the 2003-2004 academic year as well as other articles of interest will reside here for your convenience. The following list will allow you to download powerpoint presentations used in the course and will also alert you to the lectures in which the GEODE disk is used.
In case you have already lost your course outline, it is available here
These are the planned lectures in order of appearance
Sept. 1-5 What Goes Around Comes Around:
the Earth System
Reading: Chapter
1 – An Introduction to Geology (The Science of Geology, p. 2-6)
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here for Powerpoint Presentation
Sept. 8-12 “Earth - The Ultimate Blue
Box”: The Rock Cycle (note switch in topics with following week)
Reading: Chapter
1 – An Introduction to Geology (The Rock Cycle, p.15-17; The Face of Earth,
p. 17-19;
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here for Powerpoint Presentation (note continued from last week-same file)
Sept. 15-19 From Big Bang to Big Burp:
Origins of the Earth
Reading: Chapter
1 – An Introduction to Geology (Early Evolution of Earth, p. 19-20)
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here for Powerpoint Presentation
Sept. 22-26 From Atoms to Amethyst:
Basic Earth Materials (Elements, Minerals and Rocks)
Reading: Chapter
2 – Matter and Minerals (p. 63-88)
Lecture: use GEODE disk from textbook (Earth Materials: Minerals)
The Heat Under Our
Feet: Igneous Processes
Reading: Chapter
3 – Igneous Rocks (p. 135-155), Chapter 4 – Volcanoes and Other Igneous
Activity
(p. 91-131).
Lecture: use GEODE disk from textbook
(Earth Materials: Igneous Rocks; and Internal Processes: Volcanoes)
Sept. 29-30, Oct. 1-3 Son of a
Beach: Weathering and Sedimentary Processes
Reading: Chapter
5 – Weathering and Soil (Earth’s External Processes to Rates of Weathering,
p.133-145); Chapter
6 – Sedimentary Rocks (p. 159-187)
Lecture: use GEODE disk from textbook (Earth Materials: Sedimentary Rocks)
Oct. 6-10 Gneiss Dreams: Metamorphic
Processes
Reading: Chapter
7 – Metamorphism and Metamorphic Rocks (p. 190-213)
Lecture: use GEODE disk from textbook (Earth Materials: Metamorphic Rocks)
Oct. 13-17 Stressed Out: Behaviour of
the Earth’s Crust
Reading: Chapter
15 - Crustal Deformation (p. 417- 439)
Lecture: use GEODE disk from textbook (Earth Materials: Crustal Deformation)
Oct. 20-24 Stress Relief: Earthquakes
and Geophysical Methods
Reading: Chapter
16 - Earthquakes (p. 443-471); Ch. 17-Earth’s Interior (p. 475- 491)
Lecture: use GEODE disk from textbook (Earth Materials: Crustal Deformation)
Oct. 27-31 Plate Tectonics Revisited
Reading: Chapter
19 - Plate Tectonics (p. 517-553)
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Nov. 3-7 The Dating Game: Relative
vs. Absolute Time
Reading: Chapter
8 - Geologic Time (p. 215-240)
Lecture: use GEODE disk from textbook (Geological Time)
Sample
midterm exam (from last year) for study purposes
Nov. 10-14 All or Nothing ?: Catastophism
and Uniformitarianism
Reading: No reading
for this lecture
Note: November 13-
Midterm Exam (Material up to and including “Geologic Time”)
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Nov. 17-21 Waterworld: The Marine Realm
Reading: Chapter
18 – The Ocean Floor (p. 495-515)
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Nov. 24-28 The Big Freeze: Glaciers
and Glaciation
Reading: Chapter
12 – Glaciers and Glaciation (Glaciers: A part of Two Basic Cycles to Landforms
Made
of Till p. 328-351)
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Dec. 1-5 No Classes
Jan. 5-9 Our Wobbling World: Climate
Change and Milankovitch Cycles
Reading: Chapter
12 – Glaciers and Glaciation (The Glacial Theory to Causes to Glaciation,
p. 351-359)
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Jan. 12-16 Arid Extra Dry: The Earth’s
Deserts
Reading: Chapter 13 – Deserts
and Winds (363-383)
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here for Powerpoint Presentation
Jan 19-23 Tales of the Babbling Brook:
Drainage Patterns and Rivers
Reading: Chapter 10- Running
Water (p. 265-297)
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here for Powerpoint Presentation
Jan 26-30 Groundwater: Out of Sight,
Out of Mind ?
Reading: Chapter 11 – Groundwater
(p. 301-323)
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here for Powerpoint Presentation
Feb. 2-6 Survival of the Fittest…or
the Lucky ?: Major Events in the Biosphere
No reading for these lectures
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Feb. 9-13 Fossils: CD Burners of the
Past
Reading: Chapter
6 – Sedimentary Rocks (Fossils: Evidence of Past Life, p. 182-185)
Note: Feb. 12 -
Midterm Exam (Material from Midterm 1 up to and including “Groundwater”)
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Feb. 16-20 The Game of Life: Paleontology
and Evolution
No reading for these lectures
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Feb. 23-27 Slack Week (No Classes)
Mar. 1-5, 8-19 Metals, Man and
Mayhem: Economic Geology and Environmental Responsibility
Reading: Chapter
21- Energy and Mineral Resources
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Burning Desire: Fossil Fuels,
Air Pollution and Alternative Energy Source
Reading: Chapter 21 – Energy
and Mineral Resources (note: same presentation as previous week)
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March 22-26 Delightful Dirt: Formation
and Sustainability of Soil
Reading: Chapter 5 –Weathering
and Soil (Soil to Soil Erosion, p. 146-155)
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March 29-April 2 What Goes Up Must Come
Down: Mass Wasting
Reading: Chapter
9 – Mass Wasting: The Work of Gravity
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April. 5-9 Here Today, Guano Tomorrow:
Connections within the Earth System: Human Activities and
Global Change
Reading: No readings
for these lectures
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Note:
The final exam for Earth Sciences 020 will be held on:
Monday,
April 12
2:00
pm
SSC
2028
Format: same
as previous midterm exams (but just over twice as long)
Time: 3 hrs
Material covered:
approximately
25 % from beginning of course to midterm 1
approximately
25 % from midterm 1 to midterm 2
approximately
50 % from midterm 2 to end of course