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Week 7
Topographic Maps
Lab 1, pgs 5 – 28 and LAB 11, pgs 215 – 228
Questions:
Lab 1: 2, 3, and 13 – 16
Lab 11: 22 - 29 (attached)
Topics to know:
Types of maps: planimetric, topographic, bathymetric, geologic, and weather
Map legends: North arrow, magnetic north, scale, location, and symbols
Scale: statement/verbal, representative fraction, and scale bar
Latitude and longitude
Topography
Contour lines, contour interval, index contour, bench mark, relief, rule of V’s
Week 8
Rock Masses and Geologic Maps
LAB 7, pgs 119 – 144
Questions:
1, 3 – 8, 14, 16, 22 – 25, 29
Topics to know:
Formation, contacts, structures, outcrops
Stratigraphic laws: original horizontality, overturned bedding
Igneous rock masses: lava flows, volcanic deposits, dikes, sills, laccoliths, stocks and batholiths
Crosscutting relationships
Metamorphic rock masses: relict bedding, contact aureoles, metamorphic zones, index minerals, isograds
Strike and dip, dip angle, dip direction
Folds: anticlines, synclines, plunging folds, monoclines/homoclines, fold axis, core, limbs
Faults: dip-slip, strike-slip, oblique-slip
Unconformities: disconformity, angular unconformity, nonconformity
Week 9
Plate Tectonics
LAB 9, pgs 169 – 194
Questions:
1, 11 – 18, 20, 22, 23, 44 – 46
Topics to know:
Layers of the Earth: Inner core, outer core, mantle, crust, lithosphere, asthenosphere, mesosphere
The Crust: continental and oceanic
Plate tectonics: plates, divergent boundaries, convergent boundaries, transform faults, spreading centers,
continental rifts, island arcs,
Week 10
Earthquakes and Seismology
LAB 10, pgs 195 – 214
Questions:
8 – 10, 19, 20
Topics to know:
Earthquakes, focus, epicenter, hypocenter
Damage: ground shaking, aftershocks, landslides, liquefaction, tsunamis, fire
Waves: Primary, secondary, Rayleigh, Love, surface
Magnitude, Richter scale