Emphasis on practice rather than theory. Requires substantial written work. Geologic field trips and mapping from a mobile base in the western United States. Mapping projects include crystalline rocks in New Mexico and areas of increasingly complex sedimentary structure in Utah and Wyoming. Basic quantitative techniques for the prediction of water flow through porous and fractured geologic media.
Laboratory includes hands-on experience with aquifer testing methods using wells located on campus.
Designed primarily for students interested in the fields of hydrogeology, hydrology, environmental geology, and environmental and geotechnical engineering. Examines the generation, rise, storage, and eventual eruption of magma on Earth and other solid bodies in the solar system. Different magmatic compositions and their behaviors are presented, and effects of environmental conditions on magma dynamics. GLY429 Computer modeling of complex processes is becoming more important in a number of geological areas, such as risk assessment, movement of toxic contaminants in an aquifer, crystallization of magmas, and impact cratering. It is essential that students have some knowledge of the processes whereby a geological problem is reduced to a mathematical model, the model is translated into a computer program, and the program is utilized to produce numerical and graphical results.