Techniques of geologic fieldwork. Use of Brunton compass, alidade and plane table and topographic maps. Field examination of common geologic situations. Designed for students who are wanting to know the relationship between earth materials and environmental issues. Topics include minerals, rocks, depositional environments, porosity, permeability, water occurrence and chemistry, petroleum, natural gas, tar sands, oil shales, land subsidence, and earthquakes.
Laboratory includes the study of minerals, rocks, maps, and well cuttings.
Laboratory GEOL 3223 Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology. Laboratory study of the textures, structures and mineral assemblages of igneous and metamorphic rocks utilizing hand specimens and thin sections. Sedimentary Petrology and Sedimentology. A systematic approach to the animal invertebrate phyla, emphasizing fossil forms as they occur in the geologic record. Paleontologic principles and methods with emphasis on evolutionary paleontology, paleoecology and stratigraphic paleontology.