The field use of the brunton compass, plane table and alidade, aerial photographs, and altimeters will be stressed. The compromises between the environmental impact of resource development and industrialization are also studied from a scientific perspective. Lectures, three hours per week. Terrigenous sandstones and carbonate rocks will be emphasized with lesser stress on mud rocks and non-carbonate chemical rocks. Emphasis is placed on the mineralogy and physical chemistry of silicate and nonsilicate systems.
Laboratory consists of the study of igneous and metamorphic rocks in thin section.
The cyclic nature of geochemical processes is stressed. It should include instruction in the use of geologic field instruments and the preparation of geologic maps and sections. Lecture, one hour per week. Enrollment by permission of the instructor. This new model of planetary tectonic processes, which has been developed only in the last 20 years, provides an explanation of a wide variety of geologic processes over a wide range scale, with a degree of accuracy unsurpassed by any previous theory.