syllabus

recommended text:

Sloan, Geology of the Bay Area

deeper readings:

McPhee, Assembling California

Reisner, A Dangerous Place

Field Trip 1: Ring Mountain, 4 Sep

  handout  pictures

  subduction--Sanford

  blueschist--Lee

  terranes--Milo

  metamorphism--Rich

  different types of metamorphic rock--Jody

Field Trip 2:  Angel Island, 10 Oct

  serpentinite--Marshall

  handout

 

Field Trip 3: Marin Headlands, 6 Nov

  radiolarians --Pat

  pillow basalts --Julie

  chert--Mack

  handout

Field Trip 4: Salt Point, 13 Nov

   shoreline erosional features--

   tafoni--Don

 

   Salt Point handout

 

Field Trip 5:    Mt. Burdell, 21 Nov

  handout

Chronozoom, http://chronozoom.cloudapp.net/firstgeneration.aspx

read this new paper revising recurrences on the San Andreas to about a century

video on how to make a good PowerPoint: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d04w4vvByDI

US general punished for criticizing PowerPoint

from Nature Geoscience, a new revision of the age of solar system: 4.5682 Ga

really cool paper models, including many volcanoes and faults

cool article on water/ring of fire

W 2:40-5:30, SC 166: syllabus

Th 6:40-9:30, SC 166: syllabus

intro;

MW: 11:10-12:30, SC 159: syllabus

intro; originsoceans ; tectonics;

--good article on beach plastic:

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-mexico-beach-pollution-20120128,0,2261593.story

--microplastics: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16709045