Topics:

• Theme C - Sediments, Coasts, and Beaches, begins

Required Readings:

• Textbook
  • Chapters 5 and 11
  • Waves, Beaches, and Coastal Erosion (.pdf) (optional this week but potentially useful for lab)
• PowerPoints
  • Chapter 5 (.pdf)
  • Chapter 5-to-11 Transition (.pdf)
  • Chapter 11--Part 1 (.pdf)
  • Chapter 11--Part 2 (.pdf)
• Other Readings (optional this week but potentially useful for lab)
  • Optional: http://www.marinebio.net/marinescience/02ocean/mgbottom.htm
  • Optional: http://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/sea/pugetsound/index.html
  • Optional: http://scidiv.bellevuecollege.edu/gj/HurricaneKatrina.html (read at least one linked article)
  • Optional A: http://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/sea/coast/erosion/erosion.html
  • Optional B: http://www.coastalatlas.net/learn/index.asp
  • Optional C: http://www.surfrider.org/stateofthebeach/05-sr/state.asp?zone=WC&state=wa&cat=be

Lab Due:

• Lab #3: Materials of the Seafloor
  • Due this Saturday
  • Lab #3 Handout (in your Lab Manual)
    • Includes Background, Questions to Answer, Microscope Observations Data Tables, and Microscope Sediment Sample Photographs
    • Here are the color images of the sediments for Question #11 (.html)
  • Lab #3 Hints (.html)
    • Here is how to do the math for Lab #3 Q#9 (and similar lab/exam questions)

Quiz/Exam Due:

• Quiz #3
  • Due this Saturday
  • Chapters 5 and 11 - and related material

Other Assignments Due:

• Week 3 Q&A Discussion Assignment (.pdf) (This week, focus on Chapters 5 & 11.)
  • Part A - Due this Saturday
    • Extra credit - Virtual Dating - Attach your Certificate of Completion to your Part A post
  • Part B - Due next Wednesday

• The Waves, Beaches, and Coastal Erosion chapter is linked here (.pdf). It is also at the back of your textbook if you have the edition titled "Introduction to Oceanography" 5th edition by Garrison (it is not in the back of "Essentials of Oceanography").
• Download this Marine Sediments Classification Chart and this Minerals & Rocks ID Handout for your reference throughout the course and for Lab #3.
• The figures at the back of the Dash Point Field Trip Worksheet may also be useful for the microscopy section of Lab #3.