Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
State University of New York at Albany

GEO 330, 332  --  Structural Geology I, and Lab --  Spring 2009

MWF 11.30-12.25 - ES 232;
Lab [GEO 332]- Friday 1.40-3.40 - ES B18.
Instructor: W.S.F. Kidd ES 315; office hours M 2.30-4.30 and by appointment
TA’s:  Jen Gillen (ES339C); Matt Daigneault (ES 338)
 available by appointment and in office hours (Gillen ; Daigneault ).

Text: There is no required text; Davis and Reynolds, Structural Geology of rocks and regions is recommended, and readings will be assigned from it.

Assessment:
        Test 1 - Friday 13th February, 11.30-12.25, ES 232       25%
        Test 2 - Friday 13th March, 11.30-12.25, ES 232           25%
        Test 3 – Monday 6th April, 11.30-12.25, ES 232           25%
        Test 4a - Friday 24th April 11.30-12.05, ES 232            15%      
        Test 4b – Monday 4th May 11.30-11.55, ES 232           10%

Test 1 will be on topics from Part 1 - Material behaviour and brittle fractures, covered in the lectures up to (about) 11th February.
Test 2 will be on topics of Part 2 - Faults and folds, covered in lectures from about 23rd February to 11th March.
Test 3 will be on topics of Part 3 - Ductile fabrics and metamorphic structures, covered in lectures from about 16th March to 3rd April.
Tests 4a and 4b will be on topics of Part 4 – Strain markers and strain geometry etc., covered in lectures from about 15th April to 1st May.

For GEO 330 alone, exams together are totalled for the overall grade.

Lab exercises [GEO 332]: Most labs will require turning in work based on part or all of any particular lab. Announcement of what is required will be made in the individual labs.
Deadline for turning in lab exercises will be 5pm Wednesday following each lab. Overall grade is based on accumulated total from all the labs.

Certain lab exercises will involve using the computers in ES B13.
Note: No lectures on: Feb 16, 18, 20; Apr 8, 10, 13.
    No lab on 23 Jan; 13 Feb; [20 Feb]; [10 Apr]; 1 May.

Field Excursions for Structural Geology [GEO 331]

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