Earth Sciences 020: Lecture Resources

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)
     Click 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;
     Click 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)
    Click 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)
    Click here for Powerpoint Presentation

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”)
    Click here for Powerpoint Presentation

Nov. 17-21 Waterworld: The Marine Realm
    Reading: Chapter 18 – The Ocean Floor (p. 495-515)
    Click here for Powerpoint Presentation

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)
   Click here for Powerpoint Presentation

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)
    Click here for Powerpoint Presentation 1
    Click here for PowerPoint Presentation 2

Jan. 12-16 Arid Extra Dry: The Earth’s Deserts
  Reading: Chapter 13 – Deserts and Winds (363-383)
  Click here for Powerpoint Presentation

Jan 19-23 Tales of the Babbling Brook: Drainage Patterns and Rivers
  Reading: Chapter 10- Running Water (p. 265-297)
  Click here for Powerpoint Presentation

Jan 26-30 Groundwater: Out of Sight, Out of Mind ?
  Reading: Chapter 11 – Groundwater (p. 301-323)
  Click here for Powerpoint Presentation

Feb. 2-6  Survival of the Fittest…or the Lucky ?: Major Events in the Biosphere
  No reading for these lectures
  Click here for Powerpoint Presentation

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”)
    Click here for Powerpoint Presentation 1
    Click here for Powerpoint Presentation 2

Feb. 16-20  The Game of Life: Paleontology and Evolution
  No reading for these lectures
  Click here for Powerpoint Presentation

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
    Click here for Powerpoint Presentation
  Burning Desire: Fossil Fuels, Air Pollution and Alternative Energy Source
  Reading: Chapter 21 – Energy and Mineral Resources (note: same presentation as previous week)
    Click here for Powerpoint Presentation

 March 22-26 Delightful Dirt: Formation and Sustainability of Soil
  Reading: Chapter 5 –Weathering and Soil (Soil to Soil Erosion, p. 146-155)
    Click here for Powerpoint Presentation

March 29-April 2 What Goes Up Must Come Down: Mass Wasting
    Reading: Chapter 9 – Mass Wasting: The Work of Gravity
    Click here for Powerpoint Presentation

April. 5-9 Here Today, Guano Tomorrow: Connections within the Earth System: Human Activities and
    Global Change
    Reading: No readings for these lectures
    Click here for Powerpoint Presentation

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