STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY (ES 150): LECTURE AND FIELD TRIP SCHEDULE:

TTh 12:00-1:45, E&MS D250

Office Hours M 9-11, W 2-5 E&MS A116

(for class info go to: http://ic.ucsc.edu/~casey/eart150/index.html )

Date

Topic

Reading: Chap.

1/6

Class Introduction; Stress

1, 3

1/8

Joints and Veins

7

1/13

Brittle Deformation

6

1/15

Dynamic Analysis of Faults and Joints: Data Collection

3

1/20

Faults: General Features

8

1/22

Normal Faults, Strike-Slip Faults

16.1-16.3, 19

1/27

Thrust Faults

18

1/29

Primary and Non Tectonic Structures (Student Presentations)

2

1/31 (Sat)

Pescadero Field Exercise: Brittle Deformation

 

 2/3

Folds, Exam Review

10

2/5

Exam: Covering Chapters 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 16,18,19

 

 2/10

Foliations and Lineations

11

2/12

Strain: Fundamentals

4

2/17

Class Exercise on Strain (Cowell (RM 154))

 

2/19

Deformational Processes, Introduction to W. Sierra

9

2/21

Field Trip: Ductile Deformation (W. Sierra) Sat. (8AM -8PM)ain

 

2/24

Rheology

5

2/26

Cross Sections and Their Construction

12

2/29 (Sun.)

Field Trip: Folds, Faults and Cross Sections at Moss Beach 

 

3/2

Deformation in Shear Zones: Ductile and Brittle

12

3/4

Plate Tectonics and Major Structures in California

Dickinson article in lab reader

3/9

Exam Review

 

3/11

Exam Covering Chapters 4,5,9,10,11,12,Dickinson Article in Reader

 

3/16 (4-7PM)

Class Presentations

 

Books: Earth Structure" by B. A. van der Pluijm and S. Marshak, McGraw Hill, 2004, 2nd Ed.

Lab Book: Available in lab.

Recommended: Field Geology Illustrated, Maley