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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