Lectures will contain material from The Blue Planet as well as additional material. All of this material will be used to construct exams although most of the exam material will be taken from the text.
A brief summary of each lecture is available on this page under its own heading. Under each lecture will be links to appropriate web sites for further exploration on the topic of that lecture.
Topic: The Scientific Method
Reading: Introduction of The Blue Planet
Topic: The Big Bang
Reading: Chapter 1
Topic: Earth Structure
Reading: Chapter 1+2
Topic: Plate Tectonic Theory
Reading: Chapters 6
Video - Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics
Topic: The Ocean Floor
Reading: Chapters 6 and Appendix F
Lecture Notes
Topic: Plate Reconstructions
Reading: Chapter 6
Topic: Volcanoes I
Reading: Chapter 5
Topic: Volcanoes II
Reading: Chapter 5
Lecture Notes - See Lecture 07
Topic: Minerals
Reading: Chapter 4
Topic: The Rock Cycle
Reading: Chapter 4 and 7
Topic: Global Seismology
Reading: Chapter 3
Topic: California Seismology
Reading: Chapter 3 and optionally Earthquakes and Faults in San Diego County
Topic: Lecture Review for the Midterm Exam
Reading Review for Midterm Exam - Chapters 1-6
Questions from Lectures 1-12 and Chapters 1-6 in book
Topic: Geodynamics
Reading: Chapters 6 & 7
Topic: Sedimentary Rocks and Geological Time
Reading: Chapter 7
Topic: Hard Rocks and Mountain Building
Reading: Chapter 7
Topic: Going to Sea
Reading: Chapters 6 & 8
Topic: Currents, Waves, Tides, and Surfing at Blacks
Reading: Chapter 8
Topic: Paleoceanography
Reading: Chapter 14
Topic: Coastal Processes I
Reading: Chapter 11
Lecture Notes
Topic: Coastal Processes II
Reading: Chapters 11
Lecture notes
Walk along Beach North of SIO Pier 3-5 PM, Sunday March 1 or Monday March 2 - No regular class on March 2
Reading: Walk Along the Beach
Topic: Water
Reading: Chapter 9
Lecture Notes
Topic: Remote Sensing and the Greenhouse Effect
Reading: None
Lecture Notes
Topic: Tour of the Planets - Especially Venus
Reading: Chapter 1
Lecture Notes
Topic: Final Review
Topic: Review for Final Exam
Reading: Assigned Reading and lecture notes on the web
Lisa Tauxe
ltauxe@ucsd.edu
Dave Sandwell
dsandwell@ucsd.edu
This page last modified Wed 30 Jan 17:30 1998.