GEOLOGY 100 OCEANOGRAPHY
FALL 2003-04
HAROLD ANDREWS, SC 272, EXT.. 3028
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Date |
Topic | Reading in Essentials of Oceoanography, 2002 |
| September. 2 |
Introduction |
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| 5 | Origin of the oceans | Ch. 1 |
| 9 | Continental drift - geologic heresy |
Ch. 2 |
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12 |
Plate tectonics - the modern synthesis | Ch. 2 |
| 16 | Abyssal mountains, trenches & plains | Ch. 3 |
| 19 | Sands, muds & oozes of the ocean floor | Ch. 4 |
| 23 | Distribution of sediment types | Ch. 4 |
| 26 | Evolution of the Pacific | |
| 30 | HOUR EXAM | |
| October 3 | Seawater - not just saltware | Ch 5 Appeendix IV |
| 7 | Atmosphere-ocean interations | Ch. 6 |
| 10 | Ocean currents | Ch. 7 |
| 14 | NO CLASS (Fall Break) | |
| 17 | Waves and tides | Ch. 8,9 |
| 21 | Beaches - rivers of sand | Ch. 10 |
| 24 | Beaches - here today, gone tomorrow | Ch. 10 |
| 28 | The vulnerable coastal ocean | Ch. 11 |
| 31 | Marine biological processes | Ch. 12, 13 |
| November 4 | NO CLASS (Tanner Conference) | |
| 7 | HOUR EXAM | |
| 11 | Microscopic marine life | Ch. 13,14 |
| 14 | Biological diversity in the oceans | Ch. 14,15 |
| 18 | Reefs - rainforests of the sea | Ch. 15 |
| 21 | Reefs through time | Ch. 15 |
| 25 | Life in the deep abyss | Ch. 15 |
| 28 | NO CLASS (Thanksgiving break) | |
| December 2 | Riches from the deep | Ch. 3, 15 |
| 5 | Food from the sea | Ch. 13 |
| 9 | Climate and the ocean | Ch. 6 |