Ge 111a

Class will meet 1-3 PM on Thursdays in 215 North Mudd

Week	Date	Part	Topic	Lecturer
1	April 1	A	Introduction	Simons
		B	Sectional Overview	Simons/Clayton/Stock
2	April 8	A	Geology	Stock
		B	Geo/Slide papers	students
3	April 15	A	Refraction Seismology	Clayton
		B	Lab	Clayton
3*	April 18		1 day field trip to Blackhawk Meet 7am in Arms Circle
4	April 22	A	Geology	Stock
		B	Slide papers	students
5	April 29	A	Gravity/Magnetics	Simons
		B	Lab	Simons
6	May 6	A	Electrical Methods	Stock
		B	Slide papers	students
7	May 13	A	Remote Sensing/Geodesy	Simons
		B	Lab	Simons
8	May 20	A	Reflection Seismology	Clayton
		B	Lab	Clayton
9	May 27	A	Miscellaneous Techniques	??
		B	Landslide modeling

***** 1 p.m., Thursday, June 10, 1999 post-class/pre-trip meeting (215 NM) *****

* Sunday field trip

- Week of May 31 - June 11 is study/exam period, with commencement on June 11.

Assignments

Reading Assignment #1 - Due April 8

Chapter 16 "Eighty Seconds of Catastrophe" from Sharp and Glazner, Geology
Underfoot in Southern California

and

Diblee, T.W. 1982, "Regional Geology of the Transverse Ranges province of
southern California" from Geology and Mineral Wealth of the California
Transverse Ranges

Reading Assignment #2 - Due April 15

Reynolds, An Introduction to Applied and Environmental Geophysics, Chapter 5: Seismic Refraction Surveying, p. 276-291.

Bring to class on April 15 a pencil, ruler and calculator.

Read ing Assignment #3a - Due April 20

Melosh, Jay (1987) The mechanics of large rock avalanches, GSA Reviews in Engineering Geology, v. VII, p. 41-49.

Dade, W. Brian, and H. E. Huppert (1998) Long-runout rockfalls, Geology, 26, p. 803-806.

Special Meeting on Tuesday April 20 at Noon for guest lecture by Jay Melosh.
Please read the above two papers before the lecture.

Assignment #3b - Due April 22

Johnson, Brann (1987) Blackhawk Landslide, California, USA in Rockslides and Avalanches, v.1 : Natural Phenomena, ed. Barry Voight, Amsterdam: Elsevier, p. 481-504.

Reading Assignment #4 - Due April 29

Reynolds, An Introduction to Applied and Environmental Geophysics, Chapter 2: Gravity Methods, p. 32-39, 42-45, 50 (LaCoste-Romberg), 52-71.

Bring to class on April 29 a pencil, ruler and calculator.

Reading Assignment #5 - Due May 6

Reynolds, An Introduction to Applied and Environmental Geophysics, Electrical Methods, p. 418-443 and 453-457.

There is no Reading Assignment for May 13

Bring to class a pencil, paper and a clipboard or something similar to write on. Homework due May 20.

There is no Reading Assignment for May 20

There is no Reading Assignment for May 27

Field logistics and food group sign-ups in class

Post-Class/Pre-Trip Meeting on June 10

Last minute field details and scheduling

Ge 111b

Organizational meeting	8:30 AM, Monday, March 29
In the field	Sunday, June 13 - Sunday, June 20.
Field reports due	5pm, Wednesday June 23.

Raw gravity and resistivity data is now available for processing. Please remember that final reports are due at 5 PM, Wednesday, June 23.

LOOK HERE FOR UP-TO-THE-MINUTE DATA INFO.

Last Updated June 21, 1999