Calendar for Summer Quarter, 2009

Note: New material is being added and updated each week. Dates are subject to change.

All field trip handouts (except for the last week) are due on the first Wednesday after the trip.

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Week
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
1

6/30
Introduction & Plate Tectonics

Lab: Plate Tectonics (See links to plate maps)

Intro and Plate Tectonic ppt

7/1
Common Minerals of the NW

Lab: Minerals
(See links to WA Mineral websites)

Minerals ppt

Minerals Review ppt

7/2
“Reading the Rocks” of Washington I (Igneous)

Lab: NW Rocks 1

Assignment A Due (pdf version of assignment)

Igneous Rock ppt

2

7/7
“Reading the Rocks” of Washington II (Sedimentary)

Lab: NW Rocks II

Sedimentary Rocks ppt

7/8
“Reading the Rocks” of Washington III (Metamorphic)

Sedimentary and Igneous Structures

Metamorphic Rock ppt

Ig/Sed Rock Structures ppt

Lab: NW Rocks III

7/9
Field Trip: Cougar Mountain (Field Methods)

 
3

7/14
Telling Time & the Geologic Time Scale

Lab: Geologic Provinces of Washington I

Geologic Time:
Relative Time ppt and Absolute Time ppt

Exam 1 Review ppt slide

7/15
Midterm 1

Precambrian History of the Northwest

Assignment B Due

Precambrian Basement Rock & Belt Supergroup ppt

 

7/16
Field Trip: Cle Elum (returns late)

Cougar Mtn Due

Project Proposal Due (by Friday)
(Email it to me if you are not on this trip)

4

7/21
Belt Supergroup

Geologic Maps and Structures

Lab: Geologic Provinces of Washington (cont.)

Lab 2a - Maps and Structures ppt

7/22
Terranes: Okanogan Highlands & Methow Basin

Lab 2: Geologic maps & Terranes I

Field Trip Worksheet(s) Due

Terranes / Okanogan / Methow ppt

 

7/23
Field Trip: Quartz Creek/Snoqualmie Pass

Ternary Diagram ppt - Animated ppt

5

7/28
Terranes: North Cascades & San Juan Islands

Lab 2: Geologic maps & Terranes II

North Cascades and San Juan Islands ppt

7/29
Baja BC & Olympics Mtns

Challis Arc, Western Cascades and Tertiary Sediments

Lab 4: Metamorphic Rocks of the North Cascades

Field Trip Worksheet(s) Due

Baja BC ppt

Olympic/Coast Mtns ppt

 

7/30
Field Trip: Geology of the Issaquah Alps

Lab 2B and Project References Due
(Email it to me if you are not on this trip)

8/2 Columbia Plateau Field Trip (departs at 8 AM)
6

8/4
Columbia River Basalts, Yellowstone Hot Spot and the High Cascades

Lab 4 (cont.)

CRB/Yellowstone ppt

Exam 2 Review ppt slide

8/5
West Cascades and the High Cascades

Midterm 2

Lab 5: Geol Resources of WA

Field Trip Worksheet(s) Due

West Cascades ppt

High Cascades ppt

8/6
Field Trip: Discovery Park – Glaciers and Landslides
8/7 Mt. Rainier Field Trip (departs at 8 AM)
7

8/11
High Cascades, Glaciation and Recent History of Washington

Lab 5: Geol Resources of WA (cont.)

Field Trip Worksheet(s) Due

Ice Age and Missoula Floods ppt

8/12
Final Presentation of Projects

Final Projects Due

Exam 2 Take-Home Question Due

8/13

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Questions about the class or website: Contact the instructor, Rob Viens at rob.viens@bellevuecollege.edu

Wednesday, August 5, 2009