General Geology
Autumn Term 2022

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Professors:       Olivia Jensen ( e-mail      web service    short bio
Jeanne Paquette (responsible for Laboratories, e-mail)
TAs: Hiba Aoid, Tom Crouzal, Dominic D’Amato, Bernardo Filgueiras, Gary Fung, Arvid Gonzalez Gonzalez, Melanie King, Charlotte Spruzen

EPSC 221 (CRN 2898)
Time: Lectures: Tuesday and Thursday 11h35 – 12:25, September 1 through December 2; Labs according your registration.
Place: Otto Maass Room 10 (or online via Zoom when necessary); Labs according to your registration.
Course e-mail address: upe.epsc201@gmail.com preferred

 

 

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News and Highlights

  • September 1, 2022:

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News and Highlights 2021 Session

  • November 2, 2021: Our final exam is scheduled for December 15 at 14h00, probably to be held in the Fieldhouse of the Currie Gym complex. Here, I offer you a short Preview.

  • October 31,2021:Update of news items

Crystal size means what?  Usually an indication of cooling rate for igneous rocks but otherwise?  Pegmatites 

The Martian Landscape Was Shaped by Massive, Climate Change–Fueled Floods

A seismometer maps Mars’s anatomy

We Still Don’t Know Why the Reign of the Dinosaurs Ended

Extinct Style of Plate Tectonics Explains Early Earth’s Flat 

New lunar samples reveal more recent volcanic activity on the moon

A new fossil discovery may add hundreds of millions of years to the evolutionary history of animals

Possible poriferan body fossils in early Neoproterozoic microbial reef

Swipe Left on the “Big One”: Better Dates for Cascadia 

The Volcano That Shrouded the Earth and Gave Birth to a Monster

  • September 29, 2021: Update of news items as they appear on the myCourses website through September 29.

Earth's Core Is Growing "Lopsided' and Scientists Don't Know Why

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Thickness and structure of the martian crust from InSight seismic data   

Seismic detection of the martian core  

Upper mantle structure of Mars from InSight seismic data

Studying how major volcanic eruptions affect climate

Carmeltazite is harder than diamond!

State-of-the-Art Technology, Serendipity, and Secrets of Stonehenge

A meteorite’s magnetism hints at Jupiter’s migration

Eruption of volcano on La Palma, Canary Is.

The story of the eruption of Mt. St. Helens

Melting of polar ice shifting Earth itself, not just sea levels

What Makes Earth's Surface Move?

Some photos of the La Palma eruption

From another course Georgia SouthWestern University (brief categorization of igneous rock types):

Volcanic - extrusive

Intusive - plutonic

  • August 23, 2001: Next Tuesday, August 31, I shall offer an online ZOOM session explaining how to navigate the various course sites, especially the myCourses site for our course.

    In the meantime, I connect you to an interesting story of a missing billion years in the geological history as written into the layered rocks of the Grand Canyon: Billion-year 'Gap' in Grand Canyon Geological Record Explained

  • Another interesting story about the deepest structures in the Earth: Earth's Core Is Growing "Lopsided' and Scientists Don't Know Why

  • July 30, 2021: The first session of this course will begin with September 2 lecture period. If a room has been assigned for in-person lectures, that session will be given in that lecture room. Otherwise, it will be delivered online via ZOOM. I shall inform you of which via myCourses and give you the link address to the course online lecture sessions. Note that we shall provide in-person lectures when possible and only substitute online lectures when the in-person lecture room is not available due to Covid-19 restrictions. I shall ry to direct you to the correct venue for the lectures via the myCourses Calendar.

  • July 29, 2021: This course website page is still under construction. Still, you might explore the various webpages that are linked in the banner above.

 

 

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Images: Courtesy NASA/JPL/USGS
Web concept: Witold Ciolkiewicz
updated: 23/08/2022 12:43:59