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A listing of our lab meeting activities and materials - updated as we go. Please see the Syllabus/Schedule document for our anticipated shedule.

Week 2

In class lab: Minerals and Igneous Rocks

Here are some resources to help you review:

• Minerals chapter from Chernicoff's Geology, 12th ed.
• Igneous Rocks & Processes chapter from Chernicoff's Geology, 12th ed.
• Volcanism chapter from Chernicoff's Geology, 12th ed.
• An online physical geology book

Supplemental Materials - for fun!

• A Geology Bites podcast: Laurence Robb on Where Our Minerals Come From.

Week 1

On campus field lab: Poly Canyon. Meet at Poly Canyon gate.

• Copy of Field Handout 1
• Copy of Field Handout 2
• Copy of Field Handout etc.
• Link to the Topographic Profile Assignment

Take home assignment &rarrr; Drawing a topographic profile:

• ... 1
• ... 2

Week 3

In class lab: Sedimentary and Metamorphic Rocls

Week 4

Off campus field lab: Cretaceous Geology of the California Coast Ranges

Week 5

Off campus field lab: Stratigraphy annd Strucure of the Lopez Lake area

Week 6

In class lab: Topographic and Geologic Maps. Geologic Structures.

Week 7

In class lab: Cross Sections

Week 8

On/off campus field lab: Geophysics - "seeing" the subsurface. | OR | Geologic history of Morro Bay

Week 9

Staurday 6/3 (both sections): Carrizo Plain Geomorphology and Mapping Exercise

Off campus field lab: Description and links

Week 10

Lab final - in class Description and links