Class room: 3030 York Hall, Fridays 9am-12:50pm

Instructor: Lisa Tauxe, x46084, ltauxe@ucsd.edu, 300C Ritter Hall

Required materials:

Book -"Geology in the Field” by R.R. Compton, Field notebook (available for $20 from me), clip board, protractor, ruler, colored pencils, tracing paper, BOOTS, hat, sunscreen, day pack.

Structure of the class:

This class will consist of a series of field projects each worth from 5 to 10% of the final grade except project #9, which serves as a final exam and is worth 30% of the total grade.

Grades will be based on 1) class participation, 2) notebook entries, 3) report (figures and text if required).

There will be some lectures, but we will try to get “out in the field” as early and often as possible. For many projects, you will have to return to the field area on your own time after class.

Projects will usually be due the Friday after they were assigned. There will be one compulsory over night field trip and one compulsory Friday afternoon field trip.

Arrive at each class at the designated place ON TIME and ready for the field (with all the required stuff.)

Schedule:

Sept 28: Meet in 3030 York. Introduction, logistics. Introduction to pace and compass mapping. Field Excercise # 1 (5%) [Notes] Handout #1

Oct. 5: Meet at corner of North Torrey Pines and Expedition Way at 9:00 am. Introduction to topographic maps. Field Excercise: #2 (5%). [Notes]

Oct 12: Meet at corner of La Jolla Shores and North Torrey Pines at 9:00am in field clothes (comfy shoes or boots, hat, sunscreen if necessary, water, field notebook, pencil). We will be measuring a stratigraphic section. Field Excercise: #3 (10%). [Notes]

Oct. 19th: Lecture on GPS, stereonets, measuring strikes and dips, and air photos and geological maps as preparation for field trip. [Notes] Handout #1, Handout #2

Oct 20-21: Week end field trip to Anza Borrego State Park. Meet in parking lot P104 at 7 am on Saturday [NOTE CHANGE IN LOCATION!] with sleeping bag, tent (optional), boots, hat, sunscreen, water, lunch, long sleeve shirt and long pants. If you need camping equipment, you can rent it from Outback Adventures for a very reasonable rate.

Day 1: Intro to geological maps and geological sampling techniques in "Fossil Canyon"). Field excercise #4 (10%)

Day 2: Strikes/dips, airphotos and stereonets on Montezuma Grade. Field excercise #5. (10%)

Oct 26th: NB: CANCELLED BECAUSE OF WILDFIRES.

Nov 2nd: Measuring structural features in the field -trip to Santee boulders. We will LEAVE from Faculty Club parking lot at 9 am. Field excercise #7. (10%) Field excercise #7

Nov 9: Finding faults on Tourmaline Beach.We will LEAVE from the Faculty Club parking lot at 1 pm [NOTE SCHEDULE CHANGE!]. Field excercise #8 (10%) Field excercise #8

Nov 16th: Torrey Pines State Park -Field trip #1. We will LEAVE from Faculty Club parking lot at 9 am. Final project (Assignment #9; 30%). Due by Dec. 14th (noon!)

Nov 24th: Thanksgiving -no class

Nov 30th: Torrey Pines State Park. continue mapping project. We will LEAVE from Faculty club parking lot at 9 am.

Dec 7th: Bring your notebook, topo sheet and airphoto and a draft of the map to 3030 York and we will discuss how to make a vertical cross section. Final

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