Florida International University

Department  of Earth Sciences

 

 

GEO 3510 02 Earth Resources

Spring 2002

 

Instructor:  Dr G Draper                                                          MW 19.50-21.05;  PC 331

email:  draper@fiu.edu  tel:     305-348-3087             website: www.fiu.edu/~draper

 

Note revised schedule 4/10/02

 

Text

 

Craig, Vaughn and Skinner: Resources of the Earth (3rd ed.) Prentice Hall, 520pp.

 

Grading policy

 

Mid term exam                                    33%

Final exam (non cumulative)               33%

Assignments and participation             24%

Attendance                                           10%

 

Mid-term and final exams will be muiple choice.

 

Assignments and participation will be based on 4-5 assignments and follow up discussions issued throughout the semester.

 

Attendance will be assessed by five random checks during the semester. For each posiitve attendance you will be awarded 2% added to your overall percentage. If you are not in the room for the roll call (late arrival, early departure) you will be regarded as not having attended.

 

Exam Attendance Policy

 

Examinations make up the larger part of the grade. The date of the exam is clearly set.  If for some reason you cannot attend the exam you must contact me beforehand and later provide documentation  of why you could not attend the exam. Only grave personal circumstances will be accepted as valid excuses for not taking an exam.  For example, visiting aunts who need to be picked up at the airport, friends children who had to be picked up from daycare, bosses who demand overtime at the last minute will not be accepted as excuses.

 

 

 

 

 

Schedule (subject to revision).                             Chapts in Craig,Vaughn Skinner

 

Jan 7     Class cancelled due to GD’s blunder

Jan 9     Ground rules;  population, consumption of

Earth resources and consequences                                                                1

 

Jan 14   Earth resources in history                                                                         3

Jan 16   Resources and the Earth system: minerals and rocks                                       2

 

Jan 21   Martin Luther King Day – University closed

Jan 23   Resources and the Earth system: Earth’s interior and plate tectornics                  2

 

Jan 28   Resources and the Earth system:  weathering and other surface processes 2

Jan 30   Resource exploration, extraction and environmental consequences                     4

Pennies from Hell assignment

Feb 2 – last day to drop

 

Feb 4    Class Cancelled

Feb 6    Pennies from Hell discussion

 

Feb 11   Energy resources: fossil fuels -coal                                                             5

Feb 13   Fossil Fuels: Coal and Petroleum                                                              6

 

Feb 18   Fossil Fuels Petroleum and Natural gas

Feb 20   Fossil fuels; review                                                                                 7

 

Feb 25   MID TERM EXAM                           

Feb 27   Energy resources:  nuclear & alternative sources                                            7

 

Mar 4    Energy; Metal deposits                                                                             7

Mar 6    Energy discussion                                                                                   

 

 

Mar 11  Geochemically Common Metals                                                                 7

Mar 13  Geochemically Scarce metals                                                                     8                                 

 

Mar 18              SPRING BREAK

Mar 20 

 

Mar 25  Class cancelled                                                                  

Mar 27  Precious metals

 

Apr 1    Water Resources                                                                                      11

Apr 3    Water Resources                                                                                      11

 

Apr 8    Water resources

Apr 10   Industrial minerals                                                                                   10

 

Apr 15  Future of resources and discussion                                                               13

Apr 17   Review

 

Apr 24   FINAL EXAM at 18.25 !!!!!!