Instructor: R. Jorstad Phone: 6244/2626 Office Hours: 10 M,W,F,& 1W
Office: S2039 (233) Class: Parkland College 0326 e-mail: cfrbj@eiu.edu
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8/20 |
introduction, development of America's park systems, types of national parks and monuments, the National Park Service, other park systems |
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8/27 |
igneous rocks, sedimentary rocks |
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9/3 |
sedimentary rocks, metamorphic rocks |
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9/10 |
geologic time, reading stratigraphic columns |
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9/17 |
reading geologic maps, folds and faults, reading geologic cross sections |
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9/24 |
exam, weather and erosion |
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10/1 |
Badlands and Theodore Roosevelt, Grand Canyon,Zion, Bryce Canyon, Canyonlands, Capitol Reef, and Escalante |
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10/8 |
cave genesis and speleothems, Mammoth Cave, Wind Cave, and Carlsbad Caverns, shorelines and reef genesis, Everglades, Biscayne, and Dry Tortugas |
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10/15 |
glacier developed landscapes, Pleistocene glaciation in North America, Voyagers, Isle Royal, and Acadia, Rocky Mountain, Yosemite, North Cascades, and Olympic |
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10/22 |
types of volcanoes and volcanism, Mount Rainier, Crater Lake, Hawaii Volcanoes, Mt. St. Helens, Yellowstone |
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10/29 |
Grand Teton, Great Basin, Saguaro, Joshua Tree, and Death Valley |
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11/5 |
student presentations |
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11/12 |
student presentations |
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11/19 |
Thanksgiving Break |
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11/26 |
student presentations, future of parks, resource needs, review |
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12/3 |
final exam |
This schedule will be modified as needed.
Text: Harris, Tuttle, and tuttle, Geology of National Parks 5th edition.
Some web resources can be found here.
This page was last modified on August 12, 2001