Syllabus:

 

January 4	Introduction	Chapter 1, 2 and 3
January 5	Field trip to local lakes and streams and get gps data
January 7	Chemical Weathering, and water Chemistry	Chapter 10, 12, handout
January 9	Stability Relationships and silicate equilibria	Chapter 10, 12, handout
January 14	Clay minerals and Cation Exchange	Chapter 4 and handout
January 16	The Carbonate Systems and pH Control	Chapter 3 and handout
January 18	Geology dept 75th anniversary receptions 5:00 am - 6:00 pm
January 19	Geology dept 75th anniversary symposium 8:30 am - 1:00 pm
January 21	Using Stable Isotopes	Chapter 14 and handout
January 23	Using Stable Isotopes	Chapter 14 and handout
January 28	Field trip to the University of Minnesota Electron microprobe	Chapter 14 and handout
January 30	Using Stable Isotopes	Chapter 14 and handout
February 1	Field trip to Utah
February 2	Field trip to Utah
February 3	Field trip to Utah
February 4	Field trip to Utah
February 5	Field trip to Utah
February 6	Field trip to Utah
February 11	Radiogenic Isotopes	Reading from Faure and handouts
February 13	No class
February 18	Radiogenic Isotopes	Reading from Faure and handouts
February 20	Radiogenic Isotopes	Reading from Faure and handouts
February 25	TBA
February 27	Visiting speaker:
March 3	Visiting speaker: Dr. Brad Singer	Linking volcano growth to underlying magma reservoir processes using argon and thorium dating.
March 5	Visiting speaker: Dr. Jeffery Dorale
March 10	Class presentation

Laboratory:

January 5	Field trip to local lakes and streams and get gps data
January 7	Field trip to local streams and lakes	Collect more water samples and sample locations
January 14	Introduction GIS	Prof. Tesgaye Nega and Ms. Wei-Hsin Fu
January 21	Sample preparation for XRD, SEM, Micro Probe , XRF	Prof. Gary Wagenbach
January 28	Microprobe work at the U of M in minneapolis	Mr. Ellery Frahm
Jan. 31-Feb 6	Field trip to University of Utah
February 11	Projects
February 18	Projects
February 25	Projects
March 3	Projects