EASC 101: Physical Geology
| Credits: | 3 |
Pre-requisites: | None |
Lecture (hrs/week): | 2 |
| Terms: | Spring, Summer, Fall |
Co-requisites: | None |
Lab (hrs/week): | 3 |
| Instructors: | Cameron, Dunlop, Ward, Williams-Jones, Hansen, Mindell | Breadth - Science | |||
| Course Notes: Burnaby | http://www.sfu.ca/earth-sciences/courses/ugrad/webpages/101/Summer2011/ | ||||
| Course Notes: Surrey | Use link above to access EASC 101 Lab Resources | ||||
Description:
Geology is the science that studies Earth - how it was formed, how it evolved, how it works, and how we can help to preserve it.
EASC 101 is an introductory course to the Earth Sciences that has been designed both as a foundation course for Earth Science majors
and as a terminal course for those in other disciplines. Lectures investigate geologic theory, while laboratory classes focus on
"hands on" exercises emphasizing rock and mineral identification, Earth structure and processes.
PLEASE NOTE: Students with credit for Geog 112 cannot take this course for further credit.
- Minerals: The composition, structrure, and physical properties of minerals; mineral groups and common rock-forming minerals.
- Rocks: The building blocks of Earth (igneous, sedimentary, metamorphic rocks); the rock cycle; weatering and erosion.
- Earthquakes, plate tectonics, the ocean floor, structural deformation, mountain building.
- Rivers, shorleines, glaciers, deserts
- Mass wasting
- Groundwater
- Earthquakes, tsunami, volcanic eruptions, landslildes, floods
- Groundwater, energy and minerals.
1. Earth Materials
2. Geologic Time
3. Earth&sqts Interior and Geologic Processes
4. Environments and Surface Processes
5. Geologic Hazards
6. Earth Resources
Tarbuck, E.J, Lutgens F.K. and Tsujita, C.J. 2009. Earth: An Introduction to Physical Geology, 2nd Canadian Edition, Pearson.
ISBN 978-0-13-613865-5
Laboratory Manual:
The EASC 101 Laboratory Manual is required for the course and can be purchased at the University Book Store. ISBN 978-0-536-10882-1