Class Date
|
Topic
|
Reading
|
Assignment
|
| 1/27 |
Introduction and structure of the earth |
Chapter 1 |
|
| 1/29 |
Geophysics and ocean morphology |
Chapter 2 |
|
| 2/3 |
Plate tectonics |
Chapters 4 & 5 |
|
| 2/5 |
Plate tectonics |
|
Homework
1 |
| 2/10 |
Tectonic history of the oceans |
Chapter 6 |
|
| 2/12 |
The oceanic crust |
Chapter 7 |
|
| 2/19 |
Marine stratigraphy, correlation, and
chronology |
Chapter 3 |
|
| 2/20 |
Marine stratigraphy, correlation, and
chronology |
|
Homework 2 |
| 2/24 |
Ocean circulation |
Chapter 8 |
Homework
3 |
| 2/26 |
Sea-level history |
Chapter 9 |
|
| 3/3 |
Nearshore geological processes |
Chapter 10 |
|
| 3/5 |
Nearshore geological processes |
|
|
| 3/10 |
Nearshore geological processes |
|
|
| 3/12 |
Continental margins |
Chapters 11 & 12 |
|
| 3/24 |
Mid-term exam |
|
|
| 3/26 |
Continental margins |
|
|
| 3/31 |
Terrigenous deep-sea sediments |
Chapter 13 |
|
| 4/2 |
Terrigenous deep-sea sediments |
|
|
| 4/7 |
Bioorganic and authigenic oceanic
sediments |
Chapter 14 |
|
| 4/9 |
Geological effects of bottom
currents |
Chapter 15 |
Homework
4 |
| 4/14 |
Oceanic microfossils |
Chapter 16 |
|
| 4/16 |
Approaches to paleoceanography |
Chapter 17 |
|
| 4/23 |
Approaches to paleoceanography |
|
Homework
5 |
| 4/28 |
Paleoceanographic and sediment
history of the ocean basins |
Chapter 18 |
|
| 4/30 |
Paleoceanographic and sediment
history of the ocean basins |
|
|
| 5/5 |
Global paleoceanographic
evolution: critical events in ocean history |
Chapter 19 |
|
| 5/7 |
Global paleoceanographic
evolution: critical events in ocean history |
|
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