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ERSC 1F90Geology and the Environment
ERSC 1F90
Fall/Winter
2009-10
Instructor: Rick Cheel Department of Earth Sciences
Office: Mackenzie Chown D418
Phone: 905-688-5550 Ext. 3512
E-mail: rcheel brocku.ca
ERSC 1F90aims to provide:
• A basic understanding of Earth materials (rocks, minerals, etc.).
• An introduction to plate tectonics and its implications (earthquakes and volcanoes).
• The geological basis for the history of the Earth.
Grade Distribution
Labs &Assignments 30% See Isaak (Sakai) for details.
Fall term test 10% In-class, Oct. 19 & 21.
Last names beginning A to K, Oct. 19.
Last names beginning L to Z, Oct. 21.
Progress Exam 25% Time and location TBA
Final Exam 25% Time and location TBA
Winter term test 10% In-class, March 1 & 3.
Last names beginning A to K, March 1.
Last names beginning L to Z, March 3.
IMPORTANT NOTES
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in ERSC 1F01, 1F95, 1P92 and 1P93.
The last day for withdrawal from this course without academic penalty is Friday, Jan. 22, 2010. By that date each student will have had reported to them grades making up at least 40% of all graded material for the course.
Got H1N1?
If you miss a lab: contact Astride Silis.
Don’t come to class.
See course outline for contact information.
If you cannot hand in an assignment: contact Astride Silis.
Register your illness at my.brocku.ca “Got Flu”.
Do NOT contact the professor
UNLESS you are missing a test or exam.
Lectures topics:
Scientific ideas, the history of geology.
Atoms, elements and minerals.
Igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks.
The origin of the solar system and space objects.
Continental drift: the history of an idea;
Geomagnetism
Lectures topics:
Modern Plate Tectonics
Earthquakes
The Earth’s climate and its history
Volcanoes
Fossils and mass extinctions
Geologic time
Earth history: the last 600 million years
Lectures topics:
Check the course web site for material to be covered in any given week of the course.
In the event of a
significant asteroid impact:
class will be cancelled!
The usual disclaimer….
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