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Fall 2020
May 01,2024 |
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| G 201 - Earth Materials and Plate Tectonics |
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Associated Term:
Fall 2020
Learning Objectives: Upon successful completion of this course, the student should be able to: 1. Describe and classify minerals and rocks, and apply the rock cycle, mountain-building and plate tectonics theories to explain their origins. 2. Model specific geologic situations using plate tectonic theory, an understanding of rock forming processes, volcanology, and seismology. 3. Assess and examine theories of formation of various rocks, features, and mountain ranges in regions within and outside the United States. 4. Work collaboratively when doing lab activities. 5. Analyze seismic and volcanic data to identify plate boundaries and potential hazards associated with them such as deformation, seismicity, and volcanism. 6. Evaluate the effects, including environmental, of earthquakes, volcanism, and mining on a region and its residents and critique the efficacy of mitigation attempts. 7. Compare and contrast the influence of the chemistry of magmas on the types of rocks that will form, and the eruptive style and type of volcanoes. 8. Construct and interpret geologic maps, including earthquake and volcanic hazard maps. 9. Identify and interpret geologic hazards at plate boundaries. 10. Interpret structural deformation using maps and cross-sections to identify tectonic stresses affecting a given region over time. 11. Create a geologic map from data collected in a classroom mockup of the geology of an area or in the field. 12. Formulate hypotheses about how terrane accretion caused mountain ranges to assemble, by applying plate tectonic theory and based on geologic maps and other data from mountain ranges. Required Materials: Technical Requirements: |
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