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Course Schedule, Spring 1998

• GNSC 320 Syllabus
• Required readings
• Each Daily Web Guide lists assignments and text readings due for that day.
• Journal and Homework assignments are listed in red
  • Planetary Scavenger Hunt cancelled.
  • Planetarium homework assignment: Attendance at one of the weekly Friday night Planetarium presentations of the Mars Show counts equal to one journal. Complete the Mars focus and discussion questions worksheet and turn it in during the week after viewing the show. Write the date you attended the Mars Show on your worksheet, and staple the worksheet to your ticket.
• Abbreviations
  • DWG: Daily Web Guides. To go to a daily web guide, click "DWG" for that day.
  • AFG: Audubon Field Guide to the Weather

Week	MONDAY	WEDNESDAY	FRIDAY
1 Feb 2-6	Syllabus Get books Web Worksheet	Temperature DWG Troposphere model	Clouds and Moisture DWG
2 Feb 9-13	Wind and Pressure DWG	Thunderstorms, Blizzards, Tornados, Hurricanes DWG	Global Systems Sun and Seasons DWG Racing Eastward
3 Feb 16-20	Optical Phenomena of the Atmosphere DWG	Spaceship Earth, Natural Resources Chernicoff ch. 18 Peters ch. 1	The Meaning of Rocks Peters, Preface and ch 3 DWG JOURNALS DUE 1
4 Feb 23-27	Gypsum, Mediterranean Desert Chernicoff ch. 16 DWG	Physical Properties of Minerals Chernicoff ch. 2 MEET IN LAB DWG	Crystal systems MEET IN LAB (Cancelled)
5 March 2-6	Weathering of Rocks Chernicoff ch. 5 DWG	Rivers of Rock and Mud McPhee, Part 3 DWG	Mass Movement Chernicoff ch. 12 DWG JOURNALS DUE 2
6 March 9-13	Calcium Carbonate, Sedimentary Rocks, Chernicoff ch. 6 DWG

Spring Recess, March 16-20

7 March 23-27	Mineral Collections due	Rivers, Floods, Stream Landforms Chernicoff ch. 13 DWG	Mississippi and Atchafalaya McPhee, Part 1 DWG JOURNALS DUE 3
8 March 30 - April 3	Water cycle, Springs, Groundwater landforms Caves, DWG Chernicoff ch. 14	Volcanos, Iceland "Cooling the Lava" McPhee, Part 2 DWG	Volcanos, Pompei, Etna AFG 569-570 Chernicoff ch. 4 DWG
9 April 6-10	Volcanos, concl.	Igneous Rocks Chernicoff ch. 3 DWG Igneous template	The Rock Cycle Peters ch. 4 DWG JOURNALS DUE 4
10 April 13-17	Metamorphic Rocks Chernicoff ch. 7 DWG	Rock Collections Tips and Templates	Lyell's uniformitarianism Peters ch. 5 DWG
11 April 20-24	Stratigraphy Chernicoff ch. 8 DWG	Folds, Faults, Mtns Chernicoff ch. 9 DWG	Earthquakes Chernicoff ch. 10 DWG JOURNALS DUE 5
12 April 27 - May 1	Finish earthquakes.	Glacier phenomena and landforms Chernicoff ch. 15 AFG 534-537 DWG	Scablands Peters ch. 6 DWG
13 May 4 - May 8	Flood Geology and Young-Earth Creationism	Age of the Earth Chernicoff ch. 8 Rock Collections due	Geological Column and the record of life Chernicoff ch. 19 Peters ch. 9 Mars Show 10 a.m.
14 May 11-15	Geological Column and the record of life Chernicoff ch. 19 Peters ch. 9	Continental Drift Peters ch. 7	Mass Extinctions and Impact Hypotheses Peters ch. 11
15 Final Exams May 18-21	Earth Sciences FINAL EXAM: Thursday, May 21 10:15-12:15		Commencement on Saturday, May 23