UC Davis Geology Winter Quarter, 2008

What's New: Final Study Guide (4 MB pdf file)

Instructor: Dawn Sumner
e-mail: sumner@geology.ucdavis.edu
Phone: 752-5353
Office: Geology 397A
Office Hours: TBA and when you can find me (except the hour before class)

TAs for GEL 109L:

Jessica Oster, e-mail: joster@ucdavis.edu
Cara Harwood, e-mail: harwood@geology.ucdavis.edu

Lectures (GEL 109): Monday and Wednesday, 1:10-2:00 pm in Geology 185

• Lecture Syllabus (pdf)
• Text: Sedimentology and Stratigraphy by Nichols (This is a good book! Do the reading assignments as listed on the syllabus.)
• Homework assignments must be downloaded and printed

• Study Aids
  • Photo library of sedimentary structures and environments (very useful; I recommend refering to these photos when reading the text.)
  • Lecture Notes are posted on the GEL109 weblog.
  • Lots of videos with lecture summaries, experiments, and natural environments are available.
  • Study Questions
    • Midterm Study Guide for 2008 (4.3 MB pdf file)
    • Final Study Guide for 2008 (4 MB pdf file)
  • Lecture Notes and Tests from previous years
  • Great Websites (on a http://del.icio.us web site)
  • Class and lab e-mail Archives

Labs (GEL 109L):
Section 1: M,W 2:10-5:00 pm Geology 195
Section 2: M,W 6:10-9:00 pm Geology 195

• Lab Syllabus (pdf)
• Term paper requirements
  • Helpful Suggestions and Required Reference Formats (courtesy of Prof. Twiss; we want to keep our requirements consistent so you do not have to worry which ones to use for Sed Strat and which to use for Tectonics)
  • Abstract and Conclusions Writing Advice
  • The Physical Sciences Library
• Lab and class e-mail Archives

• #1A: Particles.pdf Sedimentary Particles
  • Particles Lab web content
• #1B: RockClass.pdf Siliciclastic Rock Classification
• #2: SedStructures.pdf Sedimentary Structures
  • Lab 2 web content
• #3: WritingLab.pdf Writing Workshop (Library resources and editing skills). Note that the library resources part of the lab is hard copy only.
• #4: FT1.pdf Field trip 1 - Bodega Bay
• #5: Fence.pdf Fence Diagrams (Siting a water well for a city)
• #6: Carbonates.pdf Bahamian Carbonates
  • Carbonates Lab web content
• #7: FieldTrip2.pdf (field trip 2)
  • Instructions for using a Jacob's Staff (pdf file)
• #8: Fuzzim I Sequence Stratigraphy Using Fuzzim (Computer-based lab)
  Image (a color image that you do not need to print, but will want to look at during lab)
• #9: BookCliffs.pdf Facies Analysis and Correlation of the Book Cliffs Stratigraphic Columns
• #10: Fuzzim II.pdf Sequence Stratigraphy Using Fuzzim II (Interpretations of extinctions and Holocene sea level change)