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Geosci 563: GLACIAL GEOLOGY Fall, 2009 Lectures Tu Th 9:30-10:45 AM Morrill 4N Room 161, Spire # 33757 Lab Tuesdays 1:00 - 5:00 PM Morrill 4N Room 161, Spire# 33758 Or by arrangements Instructor: Julie Brigham-Grette Professor Office: Room 247, Morrill 2 Phone: 413-545-4840 Email: [email protected] Office Hours: Mondays 1-3 PM Thursdays 1:30-3 PM or By appointment anytime!! Required Textbooks (2): o Doug Benn & David Evans, 1998, Glaciers and Glaciation. Arnold Press. 734 pages. Price: ~$65. Available UMass Text Book Annex – look for used ones. New edition will be out January 2010. o David Evans & Doug Benn, 2004, A Practical Guide to the Study of Glacial Sediments, Arnold Press, 266 pgs. (supplemental lab materials) Required Field Guide (1): Field Conference Guide Book, June 2-4, 2000 "New Drainage History for Glacial Lake Hitchcock", 63rd Annual Friends of the Pleistocene Meeting. UMass Department Publication No. 73, 125 pages. Brigham-Grette, J. Editor, 2000. Available from JBG for $ 10 Suggested Purchase: three-ring binder for all of the handouts and lab materials I will give you over the semester -- a good way to stay organized. I will supply all lab materials. Grading: 2 Hourly Pyramid exams = 20% (10% each) 1 Final Take Home Exam = 25% (comprehensive) Labs/In-class Exercises = 40% (No Lab Final) Term Paper and Presentation = 15% Term papers are to be on any aspect related to glaciology, glacial geology or applied studies if glacigenic materials (i.e., landform genesis, mapping and field interpretation, stratigraphy, hydrogeologic studies, paleoclimate, civil engineering problems, etc). Especially if you are a graduate student, I suggest you do something relevant to your research that is problem-oriented, perhaps this could develop into a chapter of your thesis with the permission of your advisor. Literature review papers will be restricted to undergraduates, if possible. I strongly encourage creativity; work with maps, air photos, remote sensing, use and interpretation of real data from databanks like the NGDC (http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/) or the National Snow and Ice Data Center (http://www-nsidc.colorado.edu/index.html). Mandatory Paper outlines are due Oct. 29th. Need help with your writing? Typed papers not longer than ~10 pages, double-spaced, submitted by Nov. 24th will be text edited at no penalty and returned for revision well ahead of the Dec. 11th DEADLINE. No late papers;Get on it early! I will prod you if you need it; you can also prod me if I need it. At the end of the semester during lab on Dec. 8th, everyone is expected to give a short 10-12 minute presentation on a term paper. This is an opportunity to practice your skills at presenting scientific material in a concise way. No matter where you go or what you do after UMass, when you apply for a job you will first be asked about your writing skills, communication skills and whether you can think independently. Now is the time to work on writing, speaking and PowerPoint skills among friends; the biggest factor is self-confidence! By December we will all be good friends; it should be fun and a good way to learn what everyone else has been working on. ************************************************************************ IN-CLASS SCHEDULE • NB: Readings listed here to the right are required and will be discussed in class. Note that in that in addition to these, a few journal readings may may be on Reserve in Room 254 on the honor system; a few references you'll have to dig out yourself. I will also send you PDFs on occasion. • I expect everyone to come to class. If you must miss class or a lab due to illness, doctor appointment, or a family emergency, please let me me know by phone or email so that we can arrange arrange for you to get handouts, notes etc. Some Some labs are easy to make up; others are not. • You must be prepared for “Sediment of the Week” – nearly every Thursday. You might get the black dot!! • I am active at a national and international level in research related to the Quaternary sciences and I will bring this research into the classroom and share my excitement for what I do. On the other hand, I also need to travel at various times throughout the semester and will do my best to let you know in advance of any changes. The schedule below reflects my efforts to ensure you will enjoy the class. Please note that I will be at the GSA and AGU national meetings. I am in Granada Spain for the ACE meeting talking about Arctic/Antarctic connections during the first week of classes. Readings, assignments and guest lectures will fill in. Date Topic Readings (pages in Benn and Evans) T 8 Sept. Introduction/Planning Sub Th 10 Great Movies Sub T 15 Sept. Glacial systems, New England history 1-13;Ridge review 2003 Th 17 Sept Milankovitch & isotopes in glacial history 1-13; 49-63; 90-93 T 22 Sept. Ice properties; snow facies; thermal 66-74;95-96 properties Th 24 Sept. ELAs and Glacier Mass Balance 74-90, T 29 Sept. Glacier Flow and Ice sheet Profiles Chapter 4 Th 1 October The Role of Water; fluvial systems Chapter 3T 6 Oct. Subglacial erosion 178-210, JBG in Moscow T h 8 Oct. Entrainment and Transport Chapter 6 T 13 Oct. Monday Schedule - no class Th 15 Oct. Facies and Glacial Tills 378-399; 404-411 T 20 Oct. First Exam JBG at GSA-Portland OR Th 22 Oct. Facies and Tills cont 422-506; JBG flying back T 27 Oct. Subglacial Sediment-Landform associations Chapter 11 Th 29 Oct. Erosional Landforms Chapter 9 (Paper outlines DUE) T 3 Nov Erosional Landscapes Chapter 9 Th 5 Nov Moraines and Ice marginal associations Chapter 11; Gustavson and Boothroyd, 1987 T 10 Nov. Glacial Land Systems 1 Chapter 12 Th 12 Nov. Glacial Land Systems 2 Chapter 12 T 17 Nov. SECOND EXAM JBG in Wash DC – Polar Research Board Th 19 Nov. Glaciolacustrine systems Chapter 8; Ridge and Larson, 1990 It fills the valleys ‘round here! T 24 Nov. Glaciomarine sediments Chapter 8 Th 26 Nov Thanksgiving Holiday Enjoy!!!!! T 1 Dec. Offshore stratigraphy Chapter 13; Oldale papers on New England Th 3 Dec. Glacio-isostasy 27-39 T 8 Dec. Eustasy 27-39 Th 10 Dec. Eolian sediments (Loess et al.) Menzies Vol.2-Chapter 6 Fr 11 Dec. Final Papers due in my mailbox Last day of


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