UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA-GREENSBORO

....................................UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA-GREENSBORO...........................................

........................Physical Geology Laboratory (GEO 111Lab-01 & 02) - Fall Semester, 1997............................

Lab Instructor: Kristen Selikoff
Lab Meetings: Mondays (Lab 01) or Fridays (Lab 02): 1:00-3:20 pm

Lab Classroom: Graham 109
Email: ksseliko@hamlet.uncg.edu
GEO 111 Lab WWW URL: http://www.uncg.edu/~gjlennar/geo111L.html
Geography Department: Graham 129
Geography Department Phone: 334-5388

Policies, Procedures, and Grading

Students enrolled in GEO 111-01 must also enroll and participate in GEO 111L-01 or GEO 111L-02-the laboratory portion of GEO 111-01.

Your laboratory grade counts for 25% of your final grade in GEO 111-01.

There will be 13 equally weighted laboratory assignments during the semester. Your grade in lab will be based on your scores from the 13 assignments.

Attendance at each week's laboratory meeting is mandatory and will be closely monitored. Students are expected to arrive on time for lab and stay for the entire lab period.

Under no circumstances will weekly assignments be accepted from students who were not present for the entirety of the lab meeting on the day the assignment was given.

If you cannot attend your normal lab meeting time, you may attend the other lab section for that particular week. You are not, however, permitted to "hop" between lab sections on a regular basis.

If you miss one of the 13 weekly labs, you must attend the make-up lab session to be held on Monday December 8, 1997 from 1:00 - 3:20 p.m. in Graham 109. No more than 1 lab may be made-up!!!!

All weekly assignments are due at the start of the following week's lab. Late labs (labs turned in after the start of lab) will not be accepted.

Students are welcome to collaborate in lab. However, everyone is expected to contribute and do their own work. The work you submit must be uniquely yours.

Laboratory Preparation and Prelaboratory Exercises

Prior to coming to lab, you are expected to read through and think about that week's scheduled lab. It is critically important to your success in GEO 111 that you do take the time to carefully read the background material and examine the figures and photos in the lab manual in advance of the scheduled laboratory.

To assist you in preparation for upcoming labs, each week you will be assigned prelaboratory exercises to be handed-in at the very beginning of the following week's lab period. Under no circumstances will prelabs be accepted after the start of the lab meeting. Prelab exercises will be graded and worth 10-50% of each week's assignment (the specific percentage will be a function of the length of the particular prelaboratory exercise).

Prelabs are designed to be done on your own, outside of lab. If you have problems or questions with one or more of a given week's prelaboratory exercises, it is your responsibility to seek help from your laboratory instructor in advance of the day that the prelab is due. "I coudn't do the exercise" or "I did not understand the exercise" are not acceptable excuses for not having the prelab ready to submit, on time, to your lab instructor.

                        Outline of Laboratory Topics                                  



Lab       Date                     Topic                  Prelab               



1     8/18, 8/22   Email & WWW; Geologic Perspectives      none                

                            AGI - Laboratory One                                      

                      * In addition to the assigned exercises                               
                        in the lab manual, send email to                                 
                      Kristin by the following lab with                               
                       the "secret #" - which you will                                
                     obtain from the GEO 111 Course Home Page                                                                            
                    (http://www.uncg.edu/~gjlennar/geo111.html)                             
                                                                               

2     8/25, 8/29    Topographic Maps & Aerial Photos                                

                             AGI - Laboratory 7                                       



       9/1, 9/5          Labor Day Holiday - No Lab                                   



3     9/8, 9/12              Plate Tectonics                                    

                             AGI - Laboratory 1                                       



4     9/15, 9/19       Mineral Properties, Uses, &                                  
                               Identification                                         

                             AGI - Laboratory 2                                       



5     9/22, 9/26    Igneous Rocks, & Volcanic Hazards                               

                             AGI - Laboratory 3                                       




6     9/29, 10/3     Sedimentary Rocks, Processes, &                                
                                Environments                                          

                             AGI - Laboratory 4                                       



7    10/6, 10/10     Metamorphic Rocks, Processes &                                 
                                  Resources                                           

                             AGI - Laboratory 5                                       



     10/13, 10/17           Fall Break - No Lab                                      
                                                                                



8       10/20,      Dating: Rocks, Fossils, Geologic                               
        10/24                    Events                                             

                           AGI - Laboratory 6                                       



9       10/27,       Stream Processes, Landscapes, Mass                               
        10/31             Wasting, & Flood Hazards                                    

                             AGI - Laboratory 8                                       



10    11/3, 11/7     Ground Water Processes, Resources, &                              
                                    Risks                                             

                             AGI - Laboratory 9                                       



11      11/10,        Glacial Processes, Landforms, &                                
        11/14          Indicators of Climate Change                                  

                             AGI - Laboratory 10                                      



12      11/17,     Dryland Landforms, Hazards, & Risks                              
        11/21                                                                       

                             AGI - Laboratory 11                                      



         11/24,          Thanksgiving Break - No Lab                                  
         11/28                                                                       



13    12/1, 12/5       Coastal Processes, Landforms,                                 
                              Hazards, & Risks                                        

                             AGI - Laboratory 12                                      



       Monday 12/8               Make-Up Lab