Spring 2012 Lecture/Lab Schedule - All Sections

Date

   Lecture

 Lab

1/17 Geologic Timescales (BH) Compass/Pace and Compass Map*
1/18 & 19 Brunton Compass (MH, BH, CK)



1/23 & 24 Sedimentary Rock Description: Essential Elements (CK&BH) Rock and Rock Unit Descriptions
1/25 & 26 Measuring and Logging Clastic Rock Successions (CK&BH)



1/30 Texas GOM History and Tertiary Regional Context (CK) Net Sand Isopach Mapping
1/31 Biostratigraphy; Sedimentary Structures, Trace Fossils, Fauna (BH)
2/1 Field Trip 1 Postmortem (CK)
2/2 Texas GOM History and Tertiary Regional Context (BH)



2/6 Measuring and Logging Carbonate Strata (CK)

Cyclicity/Fisher Plots

2/7 & 8 Cretatceous Stratigraphic Evolution of Central Texas (BH&CK)
2/9 Field Trip 1 Postmortem (BH)



2/13 Scales of Cyclicity and Correlation of Sedimentary Rocks (CK) Unconformities, Correlation and Facies
2/14 Measuring and Logging Carbonate Strata (BH)
2/15 Field Trip 2 Postmortem (CK)
2/16 Scales of Cyclicity and Correlation of Sedimentary Rocks (BH)



2/20 Lithostratigraphy, Chronostratigraphy and Tools for Correlation (CK) Pilot Knob Exercise - Part 1*
2/21 Chronostratigraphy and Age Dating of Sedimentary Rocks (BH)
2/22

Basin Classification, Background Setting of Trip 3:

Late Paleozoic Ouachita Orogen and Associated Foreland Basin Strata (CK)
2/23 Field Trip 2 Postmortem (BH)



2/27 Modern Tools and Applications in Field-Based Strat. Modeling (CK) Pilot Knob Exercise - Part 2*
2/28 Basin Classification; Sediment Provenance, Paleocurrents (BH)
2/29 Field Trip 3 Postmortem (CK)
3/1 Lithostratigrapy, Chronostratigraphy, and Tools for Correlation (BH)



3/5 Principles of Global Positioning Systems (MH) No Lab
3/6 Field Trip 3 Postmortem (BH); Principles of GPS (MH)
3/7 & 8 Exam (CK&BH)

  Spring Break


3/19 & 20 Mapping Techniques/Location Methods/GPSII (MH&RM) Topographic Maps
3/21 & 22 Geology of the Llano Uplift (MH&RM)



3/26 & 27 Interpreting Geologic Map Patterns (MH&RM) Geologic Maps I
3/28 & 29 Strike Lines, Dip Calculation and Unit Thicknesses from Maps (MH&RM)



4/2 & 3 Geologic Map Interpretation II (MH&RM) Geologic Maps II
4/4 & 5 Field Trip 4 Postmortem (MH&RM)



4/9 & 10 Cross Section Construction (MH&RM) Cross Sections
4/11 & 12 Down Plunge Viewing; Geologic Maps as Cross Sections (MH&RM)



4/16 & 17 Describing Fabrics in Tectonites (MH&RM) Describing Metamorphic Rocks/GPS*
4/18 & 19 Field Trip 5 Postmortem (MH&RM)



4/23 & 24 Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (MH) G.I.S. Base Map Preparation/GPS*
4/25 & 26 Mapping and Measuring Folds (RM)



4/30 & 5/1 Field Trip 6 Postmortem(MH&RM) Lab Final
5/2 & 3 Evaluations, Review (MH&RM)

5/12 or 15 Final Exam  

(CK) = Dr. Charles Kerans   (BH) = Dr. Brian Horton
(MH) = Dr. Mark Helper      (RM) = Dr. Randall Marrett
* Lab conducted outdoors, prepare accordingly
Department of Geological Sciences

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Jackson School of Geosciences Last updated January 16, 2012