Download Schedule Geology 101, Winter Semester 2016* Cool Places

Schedule
Geology 101, Winter Semester 2016*
Cool Places
1. Arizona
Craters
2. Hawaiian
Islands
3. Iceland
Learning Objectives
1 – Become proficient in using the scientific
process to make observations and take
measurements using Google Earth.
2 – Use the scientific process to discover the
origin of craters in Arizona.
3 – Understand how craters form by observing
laboratory experiments.
4 – Understand the role of accretion and
differentiation in the formation of Earth.
5 – Understand how to measure density, and how
differences in density drive geological processes.
1 – Explain the origin and influence of Earth’s
mechanical layers.
2 – Show how and where mantle plumes form.
3 – Explain how and where magma forms.
4 – Understand how minerals crystallize from
magma to form igneous rocks.
5 – Determine the age of a rock.
6 – Explore and explain various geological
features of the Hawaiian Islands.
7 – Use independent methods to determine the
motion of the Pacific Plate.
8 - Understand the importance of the magnetic
field and how it changes.
9 – Use the Hawaiian Island chain to demonstrate
the principle of isostacy.
10– Explain how the islands are leveled
11– Understand the differences between clastic
and chemical sedimentation.
1 – Demonstrate how ocean basins form.
2 – Use the geological features of ocean basins to
determine the motions of Earth’s plates.
3 – Identify the characteristics of glacial erosion
and deposition.
4 – Explain how rocks are metamorphosed at a
spreading ridge.
5 – Understand the hazards of Icelandic eruptions
Exploration and Discovery
Due 7 Jan: What is Science?
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ux8mpxQwqP
E), Homework (HW)-1: write a paragraph on how
you have used a scientific approach to discover
something.
Due 12 Jan: HW-2: Google Earth (GE) Learn
(http://www.google.com/earth/learn/). Use GE to
compare profiles of 3 different craters around
Winslow Arizona. Turn in screen captures of each
of the profiles.
Due 14 Jan: HW-3 Top Hat (TP)
Due 19 Jan: HW-4 GE exploration of the
Hawaiian Islands.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddzU-rkzKF0
Due 21 Jan: HW-5
Due 26 Jan: Lab 1 – Forming minerals and igneous
rocks
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqXUytwB3u
Q)
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iavbdqsSC1o)
Due 28 Jan: HW-6: Discovering the motion of the
Pacific Plate Rock age calculation
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0i8mOKuSU
w)
Due 2 Feb: Lab 2 – Weathering and erosion,
chemical and clastic sedimentary rocks
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uozyWZ6XQz
M)
Due 4 Feb: HW-7
Due 9 Feb: HW-8: GE exploration of Iceland
Due 11 Feb: HW-9: Little Cottonwood Canyon
Book (LCC) p. 12-21.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4DdNwZd2Y)
Due 18 Feb: HW-10: Plate Motion indicators in
ocean basins
4. Western
Pacific and
Indonesia
Test 1
5 – Andes
6–
Himalaya
7 – Western
North
America
1 – Understand how subduction initiates, evolves
and moves plates.
2 – Understand the various features of a
subduction zone and how they form continental
crust.
3 – Demonstrate how subduction zones cause
earthquakes and tsunamis.
4 – Explain how subduction zones cause
explosive volcanic eruptions and why these
eruptions are so hazardous.
5 – Explain the processes of metamorphism
associated with convergent margins.
6 – Use the tectonic evolution of Indonesia and
the Philippine islands to demonstrate how the
first continents accreted.
Cool Places 1-4 and associated learning
outcomes
1 – Understand how continental arc-trench
systems build orogenic plateaus.
2 – Be able to explain the difference between
crustal accretion and destruction at a subduction
zone.
3 – Be able to explain how climate influences the
tectonic development of the Andes?
1 – Apply the mountain building cycle to the
tectonic evolution of the Himalaya.
2 – Understand the unique geological features
found in active continent-continent collisions and
identify these in other mountain systems.
3 –Understand how continent-continent collisions
can change climates and climates can influence
the landscape of collisions.
1 – Demonstrate how the geological features of
the Wasatch Range provide evidence for a
complete mountain building cycle.
2 – Be able to explain the existence of fossils in
the rocks forming the peaks of the Wasatch
Range.
3 – Understand the origin and hazards associated
with the Wasatch Fault.
4 – Be able to identify and explain the geological
features in the Wasatch Range and adjacent
valleys associated with climate change.
Due 23 Feb: HW-11, GE exploration of region
Due 25 Feb: HW-12. metamorphism
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75di2vdSg5U)
Due 1 Mar: HW-13, Hazards associated with
subduction zones
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iaqE0xmsHI)
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCm6xTZjvk)
Due 3 Mar: Lab 3 – Andesitic rocks and minerals,
serpentine.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zbz4e-9pjY4)
Due 8 Mar: HW-14
10 Mar: Labs 1-3 and homework 1-14
Due 15 Mar: GE exploration of Andes
Due: 17 Mar: Lab 4: Stream Table,
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5k_cC9FHo8)
Due 17 Mar: HW-15
Due 22 Mar: GE exploration of Himalaya.
Due 24 Mar: HW-16
Due 29 Mar: HW-17
Due 31 Mar: HW-18, Panthalassa - LCC p. 7-8,
28-43.
Due 5 Apr: HW-19, Sea shells on mountain tops
LCC p. 44-58
Due 7 Apr: HW-20, Rocks to Riches – LCC p. 5060
Due 12 Apr: HW-21, Orogenic Collapse – LCC p.
63, 22-27.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuKNtQ7Hupg
Due 12 Apr. Field Trip write up
19 Apr
Final Exam (places 6-8) at 11:00 am – 2:00 pm in classroom