Transcript College Geology college geox

The outdoors is
our classroom
Mr. Lehman
Besides 5 awesome
Husky5credits,
I
mean
credits from the UofW costs
Sweeeeeeet!
$570.00
But you can get your 5 credits
for only $285.00 !!!
But what do I get for
my $285?
I.
LIVING WITH A VOLCANO
IN YOUR BACK YARD
A. Geologic history of the Cascade Range
B. The Hazards of Mt. Rainier
C. Living With Volcanoes
D. FIELD WORK: The Osceola Lahar, looking for evidence
II.
From Atoms to Minerals:
the crystalline nature
of Earth’s crust
A. Geochemistry: atoms to molecules
B. Atomic structure & the properties of minerals
C. The geometry of minerals
D. Identifying common minerals
III. IGNEOUS ROCK
DUDE!! THAT’S PLUTONIC!!
A. Melting and tectonic environments
WHAZZAT!!??
B. Plutonic bodies in the Cascades
C. Bowen’s reaction series
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D. Identifying igneous rocks
IV. VOLCANIC ZONES OF THE
WESTERN U.S.
A. Western Cascades
B. High Cascades
C. Flood basalts of PNW
D. Supervolcano!!
E. The Long Valley Caldera
F. FIELD WORK: Looking for Western Cascades in
Preston
V. WEATHERING of ROCK
A. Mechanical and Chemical Weathering
B. Soil formation, dynamics, and analysis
C FIELD WORK: Analyzing a local site for
potential residential development
VI. SEDIMENTATION & SEDIMENTARY ROCKS
A. Energy & mode of transport
B. Revealing past environments
C. Classification of sedimentary rock
D. FIELD WORK: Cougar Mt & Eocene geology
of Western Washington
VIII. THE FOURTH DIMENSION:
GEOLOGIC TIME
IX. WARPING THE WEST COAST
A. Folds and Faults of Washington
B. Geologic structure of the western U.S.
X. EARTHQUAKES: ROCK & ROLL
A. Tectonics of Washington
B. Four sources of quakes in western Washington
C. Analysis of the Nisqually earthquake
A. Glacial cycles
b. Cascade glacier
systems
c. Glaciation of
puget sound
d. Glacial outburst
floods
e. fieldwork: glacial
deposits @
discovery park
XI.
GLACIERS
A. Fluvial environments
b. Evolution of landscapes
through Fluvial processes
c. Evolution of the columbia
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