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Research on a topic of special interest. See "Undergraduate Honors Program" above.nMay be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-10
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Aydin, A. (PI)
;
Bird, D. (PI)
;
Boyce, C. (PI)
;
Brown, G. (PI)
;
Caers, J. (PI)
;
Ewing, R. (PI)
;
Graham, S. (PI)
;
Grove, M. (PI)
;
Hilley, G. (PI)
;
Loague, K. (PI)
;
Lowe, D. (PI)
;
Maher, K. (PI)
;
Mahood, G. (PI)
;
Mao, W. (PI)
;
Miller, E. (PI)
;
Moldowan, J. (PI)
;
Payne, J. (PI)
;
Pollard, D. (PI)
;
Sperling, E. (PI)
;
Stebbins, J. (PI)
;
Warren, J. (PI)
GS 204: Introduction to Petrology (GS 104)
The origin of igneous and metamorphic rocks as a function of geologic and plate tectonic setting. How to determine the temperature and pressure conditions of formation from mineral assemblages, textures, and compositions. Undergraduate students majoring in Geological Sciences must take the course for 4 units and complete a weekly lab section examining rocks in thin section. Prerequisite: introductory geology course,
GS102; those taking the lab must also have completed GS103 or have equivalent experience with a petrographic microscope.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-4
Instructors:
Mahood, G. (PI)
;
Benson, T. (TA)
GS 206: Topics in Organismal Paleobiology
Seminar course covering an area of structural biology, physiology, and ecology relevant to understanding the fossil record. Topic will change each time the course is offered. Examples of potential topics are biomineralization, fluid mechanics, biomechanics, taphonomy & biochemical preservation, and photosynthesis in air and water.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 2-3
| Repeatable
4 times
(up to 12 units total)
Instructors:
Boyce, C. (PI)
GS 207: Journey to the Center of the Earth (GEOPHYS 184, GEOPHYS 274, GS 107)
The interconnected set of dynamic systems that make up the Earth. Focus is on fundamental geophysical observations of the Earth and the laboratory experiments to understand and interpret them. What earthquakes, volcanoes, gravity, magnetic fields, and rocks reveal about the Earth's formation and evolution. Offered every other year, winter quarter. Next offering Winter 2013-14.
GS 208: Topics in Geobiology (ESS 208)
Reading and discussion of classic and recent papers in the field of Geobiology. Co-evolution of Earth and life; critical intervals of environmental and biological change; geomicrobiology; paleobiology; global biogeochemical cycles; scaling of geobiological processes in space and time.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
3 times
(up to 3 units total)
Instructors:
Francis, C. (PI)
;
Payne, J. (PI)
GS 209: Microstructures
Microstructures in metamorphic rocks reveal temperature, pressure, and rates of deformation in the crust and variations in its thermo-mechanical behavior. Topics include the rheology of rocks and minerals, strain partitioning, shear zones and brittle-ductile transition in the crust, mechanisms of foliation and lineation development, preferred crystallographic fabrics, and geochronologic methods useful for dating deformation. Labs involve microstructure analysis of suites of rocks from classic localities. 5 units for extra project.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Miller, E. (PI)
GS 210: Geologic Evolution of the Western U.S. Cordillera
The geologic and tectonic evolution of the U.S. Cordillera based on its rock record through time. This region provides good examples of large-scale structures and magmatic activity generated during crustal shortening, extension, and strike-slip faulting and affords opportunity to study crustal-scale processes involved in mountain building in context of plate tectonic motions.
GS 211: Topics in Regional Geology and Tectonics
May be repeated for credit.
| Repeatable
for credit
GS 212: Topics in Tectonic Geomorphology
For upper-division undergraduates and graduate students. Topics vary and may include coupling among erosional, tectonic, and chemical weathering processes at the scale of orogens; historical review of tectonic geomorphology; hillslope and fluvial process response to active uplift; measures of landscape form and their relationship to tectonic uplift and bedrock lithology. May be repeated for credit.
| Repeatable
for credit
GS 213: Topics in Sedimentary Geology
For upper division undergraduates and graduate students. Topics vary each year but the focus is on current developments and problems in sedimentary geology, sedimentology, and basin analysis. These include issues in deep-water sediments, their origin, facies, and architecture; sedimentary systems on the early Earth; and relationships among tectonics, basin development, and basin fill. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 2
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Lowe, D. (PI)
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