ES 331/767 Schedule

James S. Aber

2008 FALL SEMESTER

The tentative schedule for ES 331/767 is presented in the tables below. All course materials are delivered via Internet. Lectures are delivered in the form of webpages, and handouts are provided via FTP. On-campus students meet once a week for a review session on Tuesdays, 1:00-2:20, SH 110. The weekly schedule below indicates these meeting dates (except first and last weeks). All students residing in eastern Kansas and northwestern Missouri are expected to attend the class field trip, which will take place on Saturday, Nov. 1st.

The first block contains most of the readings from Glaciers along with webpage lectures for each week. The second block has a greater emphasis on webpage lectures and lab exercises. On-campus students are expected to read materials each week prior to the review session.

Weekly announcements.

First Block
Week Subject Web Lecture Handout Reading Special
Aug. 20 Introduction
(no class meeting) 		Ice Ages overview Lec. 1 chap. 1, 2, 12 Set up e-mail
Aug. 26 Glaciers and ice sheets Modern glaciers Lec. 2
thomp.pdf 		chap. 3, 5, 14
Sep. 2 Glacial geomorphology Glacial erosion
Glacial deposition 		Lec.
3 & 4 		chap. 6, 10 Labor Day
Sep. 9 Glacial geomorphology Glacial deformation
Glacial melt water 		Lec.
5 & 6 		chap. 7
Sep. 16 Modern glacial processes Icelandic glaciers Lec. 7 chap. 8, 9
Sep. 23 Glacial megageomorphology Landscape patterns Lec. 8
mars.pdf
Sep. 30 Glaciomarine environments Crust and sealevel Lec. 9 Lab I
Oct. 7 Quaternary chronology Dating methods Lec. 10
 Lab II
Oct. 14 Quaternary paleoclimatology Paleoclimate methods Lec. 11
shack2.pdf 		chap. 11, 15 Mid-term exam
Oct. 13-16


Second Block
Week Subject Web Lecture Handout Reading * Special
Oct. 21 Glacial climatic
conditions 		Climatic controls Lec. 12 abrupt.pdf
icehouse.pdf
Oct. 28 Regional glaciation Glaciation of Scandinavia
Glaciation of Central Europe 		Lec. 13 & 14 elblag.pdf
vormsi.pdf 		Field trip
Nov. 1
Nov. 4 Regional glaciation Appalachian Plateau
Southern Rocky Mountains 		Lec. 15 rocky.pdf
laurentide.pdf 		Lab III
Nov. 11 Regional glaciation
(Veterans Day) 		Northern Great Plains
Central Great Plains 		Lec. 16 & 17 ks_ice.pdf
pre_wisc.pdf
Nov. 18 Late glacial
environments 		Megafauna extinctions Lec. 18 fire.pdf Lab IV
Nov. 25 Thanksgiving break Short report
Dec. 2 Holocene climate Record of climatic change
Late Holocene climate 		Lec. 19
clim_stats.pdf 		chap. 4, 13
trinchera.pdf 		Lab V, ES 767
webpages
Dec. 9 Holocene climate Sunspots & volcanoes Lec. 20
hum_clim.pdf 		chap. 16
Dec. 15 Finals week Final exam
Dec. 12-16

* PDF files in the reading column are for ES 767 only.

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