GEOLOGY 202 – INTRODUCTION TO GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURES Fall 2006

Instructors:

Laurel Goodwin Office: 175 Weeks Hall

Phone: 265-4234

Email: laurel@geology.wisc.edu

Toni Simo Office: 495 Weeks Hall

Phone: 262-5987

Email: simo@geology.wisc.edu

Basil Tikoff Office: 179 Weeks Hall

Phone: 262-4678

Email: basil@geology.wisc.edu

Teaching Assistants: JoAnn Gage jgage@geology.wisc.edu (Monday)

Bryn Benford bryn@geology.wisc.edu (Tuesday)

Jenn Walker (Wednesday)

Scheduled Meetings: Lectures: Mon, Wed, & Fri 12:05-12:55 p.m.

Labs: Monday, Tuesday, & Wednesday 2:25-5:25 p.m.

Office Hours: To be arranged

Field trips: 1) Paleozoic stratigraphy and topography (Wisconsin)

Sun Sept. 10

2) Black Hills (South Dakota)

Wed-Sun September 20-24, departing and arriving late

3) Kettle Moraine, Glacial Geology, Sat, October 7

4) Pine Bluff (Wisconsin), Mapping Sedimentary Rocks

Sun, October 8

5) Biron Dam (Wisconsin), Mapping Igneous Rocks

Sat, November 4

Grade: 70% labs (including field trip reports, in-class exercises,

etc.), 30% lecture exams

Course Goals:

Learn how to read and construct topographic and geologic maps

Learn how to read and construct cross-sections

Understand geological structures and processes at the surface of the earth

Understand geological structures and processes below the surface of the earth

Preliminary Course Schedule:

Date	Lecture	On Line Readings	Lab
9/6	Introduction course and Brunton	Chapter 4 Orientation Chapter 4 Figures Chapter4-Appendix Figure	Rock ID and measurements; Wednesday lab
9/8	Rock Types
9/10	Capturing Geologic data from Outcrops and visualizing in 3D, the Brunton compass and Making a Topo Map		Shaded relief map exercise due 9/15
9/11	Rock Successions		Rock ID and measurements Monday and Tuesday labs and Topographic Maps and 3D Visualization Wednesday lab
9/13	Basic Stratigraphic principles, Unconformities and Geologic Time
9/15	Topographic maps and Landforms
9/18 & 20	Geology Black Hills		Topographic Maps and 3D Visualization Monday and Tuesday labs
9/20-24	Black Hills, South Dakota
9/25 & 27	Geologic and geomorphologic maps		Geologic Maps
9/29	Review Black Hills
10/2	Intro Geomorphology, Soils, and Correlation		Soils and Picnic Point
10/4	Glacial Geology of Wisconsin – landforms and processes
10/6	First Exam (9/6-10/6)
10/7-8	Quaternary mapping and Pine Bluff correlation
10/9 & 11	Stratigraphy and sedimentology		Correlation Quaternary
10/13	Paleogeographic maps
10/16 & 18	Isopach maps		Air Photos
10/20 & 23	Cross Sections
10/25& 27	Fence diagrams and exercises		Geologic Maps and Cross Sections
10/30 & 1	Structure contour maps		Black Hills cross section
11/3	In Class Structure Contour Exercise
11/4	Biron Dam
11/6	Fractures		Paleogeographic maps
11/8	Maps and Fractures
11/10	Second Exam (10/7-11/8)
11/13	Faults		Box-Geology
11/15	Faults
11/17	Maps and faults
11/20	Folds		Tectonic environments
11/22	Maps and folds
11/24	Fabrics
11/27	Maps and Fabrics		Igneous Cross-Sections
11/29	Shear zones
12/1	Igneous Outcrop Patterns
12/4	Igneous Rock Types		Final Lab Exam 1
12/6	Igneous Processes
12/8	Metamorphic Rocks
12/11	Metamorphic Isograds		Final Lab Exam 2
12/13	Metamorphic Maps
12/15	Review
12/18	Final Exam 7:45 AM, 140 Weeks Hall