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Apr 25, 2024
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GGY 203 - Physical Geology
Credits: 4
3 Lecture Hours 2 Lab Hours
Description
This is a course for both science and non-science majors. A systematic study of the physical and historical aspects of the earth including materials of the earth’s crust and processes acting upon and beneath the earth’s surface. Topics include but are not limited to: minerals, rocks, weathering and mountain building processes, running water, glaciers, earthquakes and volcanoes. Field trips and laboratory work are included.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of the course, the student will:
- Apply scientific inquiry with an emphasis on modeling to physical geology.
- Define physical and historical geologic situations.
- Distinguish between physical and historical geologic situations that require a theoretical modeling interpretation and those that do not.
- Describe local geology.
- Apply concepts learned in the course to conduction of laboratory experiments and participation in field trips.
Listed Topics
- Introducing Geology
- Atoms, Elements, and Minerals
- Igneous Rocks: Intrusive Origins and Activity
- Volcanism and Extrusive Rocks
- Weathering and Soil
- Sediment and Sedimentary Rocks
- Metamorphism, Metamorphic and Hydrothermal Rocks
- Time and Geology
- Mass Wasting
- Streams and Floods
- Ground Water
- Glaciers and Glaciation
- Deserts and Wind Action
- Waves, Beaches, and Coasts
- Geologic Structures
- Earthquakes
- Earth’s Interior and Geophysical Properties
- Sea Floor
- Plate Tectonics
- Mountain Belts and Continental Crust
- Geologic Resources
- Local Geology.
Reference Materials
Textbook; Laboratory Manual; Calculator; Maps; Computer Simulations; Geological Field Work Equipment; Periodicals; Geological Materials and Activities from the Internet.
Approved By: Sutin, Stewart Date Approved: 11/08/2006
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