For Week 9
1. Exam: Your take-home is due in class on Tuesday.
2. Image: Your seventh and final image assignment is due on Thursday. Here is the image, which is taken looking down at a horizontal outcrop. Here's the blank form to sketch on. Keep your drawing simple. Limit yourself to one hour for the whole assignment.
3. Your last major assignment for class is the San Andreas paper. This is due at the start of our scheduled exam time - Monday March 14 at 3:30 pm. Here are the details about the paper.
For Week 8
1. Textbook: Chapters 2-3.
2. Lab: Please load your powerpoint slides onto the classroom computer before lab next week. Also, please fill out this form and bring it to lab. Remember to practice your talk for your partner (and get them to ask you questions).
3. Painted Canyon posters: due in class on Thursday. These really can be low-tech: I'm much more interested in your map, cross-section, stereonet, and image analysis than I am in the final poster layout.
4. Image: Your sixth image assignment is also due on Thursday. Here is the image, which is taken looking down at a horizontal outcrop (with a tiny rabbit? pellet for scale in addition to the pencil). Here's the blank form to sketch on. Keep your drawing simple again.
5. Extended office hours this weekend: Saturday 10-12; Sunday 10-12; Monday 4:30-5:30.
6. Extended office hours this week: Wednesday 3:30-4:30; Thursday review session at 5:30 (come with questions); Friday 4:30-5:30.
For Week 7
1. Textbook: Chapters 11-15 - I'd say that skimming the pictures could be really helpful.
2. Lab: I passed out the lab handout for next week; this is so you can start to budget your time (since I know that some people are traveling, others have comps, etc.) You will still have all lab period to work on it. Because talks are scheduled for the following week, your completed posters will be due on February 24th (a Thursday).
3. Image: Your fifth image assignment is due on Thursday. Here is the image, which is taken looking down at a horizontal outcrop, and the blank form to sketch on. Keep your drawing simple again - as if you were sketching in the field (although color may be useful this week).
4. Office hours: Thursday afternoon 3-4; Friday 4:30-when I go home.
For mid-term break
Here is the handout about what to bring on the trip. I don't mind if you bring computers - especially because we have time in transit - but just keep in mind that it is hard to charge them at the campsite.
For Week 5
1. Textbook: We're going to start talking about ductile structures soon; start examining chapters 11 and 14.
2. Lab: The Kettleman Hills lab is due at the start of lab on Tuesday; don't stress too much about the cross section, okay?
3. Lab: For those of you giving talks this week in lab, please fill out the top of this form and bring it to lab; I will use this to grade your talk. Also, put your powerpoint in the course folder (before lab) so that we can easily transfer talks to the classroom computer. Please note that you will not be graded on whether you make fancy slides - it's much more important to explain the ideas in the paper clearly.
4. Image: Your fourth image assignment is due on Thursday. Here is the image, which is taken looking down at a horizontal outcrop, and the blank form to sketch on. NOTE: I want you to make your sketch simpler this week - imagine that you are in the field and sketching into a field notebook. (For instance, do not sketch the rubble that is on top of the outcrop along the top of the page - it is not relevant to the story so it can be omitted from your sketch.)
5. Office hours: I've got several office hours this weekend. Figure out which one works with your schedule and plan to visit me then if you have questions about your paper (or about the lab for Tuesday). Friday 4:30-when I go home; Sunday 11-12; Monday 4-5.
Week 4
1. Textbook: Chapters 4 and 5 about stress are still relevant. Also, look at the figures in Chapters 16-18 about faults.
2. Lab: The lab is due at the start of lab on Tuesday. I have office hours on Friday afternoon at 4:30 and Monday afternoon at 4. Chelsea has office hours on Monday night.
3. Image: Your third image assignment is due on Thursday. Here is the image and the blank form to sketch on.
4. Discussion: We will discuss the two papers about the San Andreas fault in class on Thursday. These are available outside my office for you to pick up. Print out your typed responses to my questions; do this before class and not during class.
Week 3
1. Textbook: Consider starting to read Chapters 4 and 5 about stress.
2. Lab: The lab is due at the start of lab on Tuesday. I have office hours on Friday afternoon at 4:30. Chelsea has office hours on Monday night.
3. Image: Your second image assignment is due on Thursday. Here is the image and the blank form to sketch on.
4. Discussion: We will discuss the two papers about the San Andreas fault in class on Thursday. Print out your typed responses to my questions; do this before class and not during class.
Week 2
1. Textbook: Read Chapters 7 and 8.
2. Lab: The lab is due at the start of lab on Tuesday.
3. Image: Your first image assignment is due on Thursday at the start of class. Here is the image and the blank form to sketch on. This assignment will be graded on a ten-point scale: 3 for the sketch, 3 for the observations, and 3 for the interpretations. The last point is reserved as a je ne sais quoit point given out for special reasons that are hard to explain.
Week 1
1. Textbook: The first reading assignment is Chapter 1 and the appendix reading about stereonets.
2. Please buy a protractor from the bookstore. I recommend the red see-through kind where the protractor is within a ruler.
3. The California map assignment is due on Friday at 5 pm.
