GLY 1010 Introduction to the Earth Sciences - Section 01 - Spring 2003

Revised March 25, 2003

Room PCA 135(new Achitecture building between Education and Computer sciences - PCS). It is the red-tiled structure

Jan 8  Introduction; Overview of the Earth  1
Jan 13  Overview of the Earth; Matter and Minerals  1,2
Jan 14  Matter and Minerals Rocks and rock cycle  2,3

 Jan 20  Martin Luther King Day - University Closed  
 Jan 22 Rock cycle;  Igneous rocks  3,4
 Jan 27  Igneous Rocks, Volcanoes  4, 5
 Jan 29  Volcanoes  5
Feb 3  Weathering and erosion; Sedimentation and sedimentary rocks  6, 7
 Feb5   Sedimentary rocks (cont.)  7
 Feb 10  Metamorphic Rocks; review  8
Feb 12 FIRST MID TERM EXAM  
Feb 15 - Clast exam

Feb 17  Rock deformation  10
Feb 19  Geologic Time  9
 Feb 24  Geoogic time; Mass wasting;  11
Feb 26  Hydrogeologic Cycle and Groundwater  12
 Mar 3  Rivers and fluvial systems  13
 Mar 5  Glaciers, ice ages and changing sea levels  15

March 4 - last day to drop with a DR grade
 Mar 10  SECOND MID TERM EXAM  
Mar 12 Cancelled  

 Mar 17 Spring Break ­ be (responsibly) merry  
 Mar 17  Spring Break ­ be (responsibly) merry  

 Mar 24  Deserts  14
 Mar 26  Earthquakes  18

Registration week

Mar 30  Earth's Interior  19
 April 1 Plate tectonics  20

April 7  More Plate tectonics:  20
April 9 Continental tectonics  21

Summer Registration begins
April 14 Resources  22
April 16 Overview and review  


FINAL EXAM(comprehensive) Monday April 21 at 12.30 pm!!!!!