Applications to chemical reactions, mineral stability, aqueous solutions, geochemical cycles, and isotope geochemistry. Three lectures per week. Two lectures and one three-hour lab per week. It is recommended that this course be completed before student teaching. Principles and techniques of geophysical exploration, including gravity, magnetic, electric, and seismic methods.
Course includes field collection and computer modeling of geophysical data.
Three lectures per week. Field trips required. Framework of plate tectonics including plate motion, processes at plate boundaries, and driving mechanisms. Processes of crustal deformation and evolution of orogenic belts over time, with examples from North America. Three lectures per week.