HOW THE EARTH WORKS: A HANDS-ON EXPERIENCE
or EARTH: HANDS-ON
Geological Sciences 207 - Fall 1996

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Instructors: Professors Ben A. van der Pluijm (4534b CCL; vdpluijm@umich.edu) and Lynn M. Walter (1018 CCL; lmwalter@umich.edu); GSI: John H. Harris (4534e CCL; jhharris@umich.edu)

Time and location: T and Th, 2:30-4:00 pm; 2502 C.C. Little Building; occasional 'fieldtrips'

Extra hand-outs etc. can be found at 4534 CC Little Building

Hand-in the exercise(s) at the beginning of the following class meeting.

Date

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Topic and useful Web link(s)

Instructor

9/3 (0) Opening vdP&LMW
9/5 1 Building blocks of Earth materials: minerals
(sample tray 1)
Minerals by Name | worksheet for classes 1, 2 and 3 | John's minerals list 		vdP
9/10 2 Earth materials: sedimentary rocks
(sample tray 2)
Igneous, Sedimentary & Metamorphic Rock Info | worksheet for classes 1, 2 and 3		 vdP
9/12 3 Earth materials: igneous and metamorphic rocks
(sample tray 3)
Igneous, Sedimentary & Metamorphic Rock Info | worksheet for classes 1, 2 and 3		 vdP
9/17 4 Radioactivity and dating
(hand-out)
Periodic Table of the Elements/Geological information | dating hand out | Terrestrial Impact Structures (Craters) 		vdP
9/19 5 Maps and profiles
(book problems 1-8)
Cartographic links on Internet | MapQuest! Interactive Atlas | National Geographic Online | USGS - Cartographic Division | Xerox PARC Map Viewer: World 		vdP
9/24 6 Geologic maps
(book problem 1 and 7)
 vdP
9/26 7 Earthquakes and earthquake magnitude
(hand-out with exercise)
MichSeis | PSN - Public Seismic Network 		vdP
10/1 8 Earthquakes and epicenters
(hand-out with exercise)		 vdP
10/3 9 Volcanism
(hand-out exercise and book problems 9-11)
MTU Volcanoes Page 		vdP
10/8 10 Rivers and Floods
(Chapter 9, problems 5-8; Chapter 10, problem 5)
Flood Plain Management Services (FPMS) Program,U.S.Army Corps of Engineers | NASA's Flood Management | Dartmouth Flood Observatory 		vdP
10/10 11 Coastal erosion
The National Marine and Coastal Geology Program, USGS | Coastal Zone (Geol Surv Canada) | Coastal Programs Division | Michigan Coastal Zone Management Program 		vdP
10/15 12 Mass movement
USGS Landslide Information Center 		vdP
10/17 13 Surface systems: water cycle, rocks and life LMW
10/22 Exam 1; 25% of final grade (vdP)
10/24 14 Soil: types and processes LMW
10/29 no class (GSA meeting)
10/31 15 Compositions of natural waters LMW
11/5 16 Moving fluids through rocks LMW
11/7 17 Water in the subsurface: groundwater and aquifers LMW
11/12 18 Consequences of groundwater exploitation LMW
11/14 19 Oil and natural gas: two special subsurface fluids LMW
11/19 20 Coal and hydrocarbon combustion: CO2 and acid rain LMW
11/21 21 Pollution of surface waters: stream and lakes LMW
11/26 22 Problems with subsurface aquifer pollution LMW
11/28 Thanksgiving recess
12/3 23 Hazardous waste: radioactivity in the environment LMW
12/5 24 Radon gas pollution LMW
12/10 (25) Closing and Evaluation vdP&LMW
12/19 Exam 2; 25% of final grade (LMW)

Text: Laboratory Exercises in Environmental Geology, by H. Blatt (1994; Wm.C.Brown); and classroom handouts.

Grades: Exams count for 50% of final grade, whereas the other 50% comes from graded exercises.