TENTATIVE SYLLABUS
GEOLOGY OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION
SUMMER B-BLOCK
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Date |
Lecture |
Lab |
Readings |
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M |
July 5 |
Introductions |
FT: Uintah Street |
Ch. 1, 9 (look at Ex. 6) |
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Tu |
July 6 |
Minerals, Bowen’s Reaction Series |
Minerals, lab |
Ch. 2 |
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W |
July 7 |
FT – Local Column – 2 billion year history and modern environmental issues |
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Th |
July 8 |
FT – Local Column (cont.) |
Prepare field notes |
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F |
July 9 |
Igneous, Sedimentary Metamorphic Rocks |
Rocks Lab-Ex. 3, 4, 5; Contours Exercise-Ex. 7. |
Ch. 3,4,5,7,8 |
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M |
July 12 |
FT – Canon City and Royal Gorge |
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Tu |
July 13 |
FT – Garden of the Gods, faulting project |
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W |
July 14 |
Structural Geology |
Map Lab Ex. 16 |
Ch. 10 |
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Th |
July 15 |
FT – 6:30 a.m.!! Loveland Mapping Project, due Monday @ 9:00 a.m. |
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F |
July 16 |
Plate Tectonics |
Work on Loveland maps |
Ch. 20 |
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M |
July 19 |
Geomorphology: Water Processes, Groundwater Stream Hydrology and Flooding |
Stream Maps - Ex. 9 |
Ch. 12, 13 |
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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 |
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W |
July 21 |
FT – Bear Creek mapping project |
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Th |
July 22 |
FT – Bear Creek mapping project |
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F |
July 23 |
Complete write-up for map |
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