Welcome to the
Geology I
Home Page!
Fall Term, 2009
What's New?
- The much-awaited 2nd Exam will be held during our regular class time on Thursday, November 12. The 2nd Exam will focus on our discussions of Sedimentary rocks (Chapter 7), Metamorphic (Chapter 8) rocks, Geologic Time (Chapters 12 and 13 and Interlude E), and Deformation, Geologic Structures and Orogeny (Chapter 11, Campus Geology Lab). Basically, everything Dr. Abrajano covered in class. A REVIEW Guideline for Exam 2 is provided to help you capture the most important points covered in class and laboratory.
- Changing
of the Guard, Again: Prof.
Abrajano will be lecturing for the last time Thursday this week. Next week, Prof. Steve Roecker will
be back, with great stories about the
- After seeing that the class average for the 1st Exam was lower than expected (48/69), we decided to give you a chance to earn as much as 5 extra Exam points on a little Assignment. You can apply these 5 points on Exam I, but if you happen to have done reasonably well on Exam I, you can use the 5 points on any of the latter two major Exams. So, if you do the assignment to our satisfaction, and you got 50/69 on Exam I, your new Exam I grade will be adjusted to 55/69! If you don’t do this Assignment, you just won’t get the extra points – that’s all.
- What
is the assignment? (1) Visit the Indian Ladder Trail
in Thatcher Park (visit http://www.localhikes.com/Hikes/Thacher_Park_0160.asp
or
http://www.trails.com/tcatalog_trail.aspx?trailid=HGN205-060 or any other urls for guidance on how to get there), (2) get your photo taken with an outcrop on the trail as the background (best if dates show on the photo, but not required), and (3) write a few statements describing what you saw on the trail (half-page typed qualitative description at most, but in your own words!) (e.g., type of sediments, any structures, fossils, qualitative bedding orientation, structures and any other observations relevant to our class discussion). Submit the half pager (with picture) in class to Prof. Roecker by Monday, November 16 for full credit. Dr. Abrajano visited the trail just this past weekend, and it was lovely out there (see pictures). You are strongly encouraged to visit the Indian Ladder Trail as a group, and group pictures will be acceptable! Be safe and have fun!!!!!
- Your
Laboratory TA’s have decided that a make-up session will be arranged
for missed laboratory with prior
permission towards the end of the semester. ASAP, you need to (1) arrange with
your respective TA’s which specific laboratory you missed, and (2)
present a valid excuse/permission (e.g., email from Professor or TA or
Student Services) for the absence. All exams and quizzes have
been graded and returned (during your respective lab sessions). If you don’t have
yours, you probably missed the lab.
- Despite the very clear schematics and diagrams in your Marshak textbook, I thought I’d call your attention to some helpful animations available in http://www.wwnorton.com/college/geo/earth3/animations.asp.
- The course syllabus link has an html version of the syllabus. A PowerPoint version of the syllabus is available here . The schedule link has the current class schedule.
- The Page How can I Figure out my Current Grade? provides some details on how to estimate how you are doing in the class so far.
SWINE FLU NOTICE
According to a lot of people who know about these things, the H1N1 virus (a.k.a. Swine flu) is a very serious threat to our collective health. Please if you find yourself experiencing flu-like symptoms, do not come to class or lab and seek medical attention as soon as possible . It is important to keep exposure to an absolute minimum. Also, please do not attempt the activity pictured above at home - the child in the photo is a trained professional.
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