GEOLOGY  100 OCEANOGRAPHY

FALL 2003-04

HAROLD ANDREWS, SC 272, EXT.. 3028

Date

Topic Reading in Essentials of Oceoanography, 2002
September. 2

Introduction

5 Origin of the oceans Ch. 1
9 Continental drift - geologic heresy

Ch. 2

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