TENTATIVE SYLLABUS

GEOLOGY OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION

SUMMER B-BLOCK

 

Date

Lecture

Lab

Readings

M

July 5

Introductions

FT: Uintah Street

Ch. 1, 9 (look at Ex. 6)

Tu

July 6

Minerals, Bowen’s Reaction Series

Minerals, lab

Ch. 2

W

July 7

FT – Local Column – 2 billion year history and modern environmental issues

Th

July 8

FT – Local Column (cont.)

Prepare field notes

 

F

July 9

Igneous, Sedimentary Metamorphic Rocks

Rocks Lab-Ex. 3, 4, 5; Contours Exercise-Ex. 7.

Ch. 3,4,5,7,8

M

July 12

FT – Canon City and Royal Gorge

 

Tu

July 13

FT – Garden of the Gods, faulting project

 

W

July 14

Structural Geology

Map Lab Ex. 16

Ch. 10

Th

July 15

FT – 6:30 a.m.!! Loveland Mapping Project, due Monday @ 9:00 a.m.

F

July 16

Plate Tectonics

Work on Loveland maps

Ch. 20

M

July 19

Geomorphology: Water Processes, Groundwater Stream Hydrology and Flooding

Stream Maps - Ex. 9

Ch. 12, 13

Tu

July 20

FT – Eleven Mile Canyon and the South Platte River – bring sneakers, shorts for work in stream; film canisters, meter-sticks, calculators… for measurements

W

July 21

FT – Bear Creek mapping project

 

Th

July 22

FT – Bear Creek mapping project

 

F

July 23

Complete write-up for map