Geology 260: Geomorphology
Fall 2006
Olin-Rice 175 Professor: Kelly MacGregor
Class MWF 10:50-11:50 Office: Olin-Rice 116
Lab T 8:40-11:40 (651)
696-6441 office
(651)
698-3916 home
macgregor@macalester.edu
Week 1:
W (9/6) Course introduction
F (9/8) Big
Picture: Earth Surface System
Ch. 1 (Allen)
No lab
Week 2:
M (9/11) Building and supporting topography
W (9/13) Building
and supporting topography
F (9/15) Models of landscape evolution
Molnar; Molnar and England
Lab 1: Isostasy
& plate tectonics
Week 3:
M (9/18) Landscape evolution and climate
change
W (9/20) Landscape evolution and climate change
F (9/22) Rivers
Ch.
2 (Allen); Ch. 2 (textbook); Raymo and others
Lab 2: Landers
earthquake
Week 4:
M (9/25) Rivers
W (9/27) Rivers
F (9/29) Rivers
Ch.
2-8 (Mount)
Lab 3: Minnehaha Creek (field)
Week 5:
M (10/2) Rivers
W (10/4) Rivers
F (10/6) Rivers
Ch. 5-7
Lab 4: Minnehaha
Creek (field)
Week 6:
M (10/9) Sediment Transport
W (10/11) Sediment
Transport
F (10/13) Sediment Transport
Lab 5: Settling Velocity
Week 7:
M (10/16) Hour
Exam I
W (10/18) Physical Weathering
F (10/20) Chemical Weathering
Ch. 3; Ch. 4 (79-92); Ch. 11; Walder and
Hallet
Lab 6: St.
Anthony Fall Lab (field trip)
Week 8:
M (10/23) Hillslopes
W (10/25) Hillslopes
F (10/27) Fall Break
Ch. 4 (92-133)
No Lab – Fall Break (Tuesday is a Thursday)
Week 9:
M (10/30) Debris Flows
W (11/1) Debris
Flows
F (11/3) Glaciers
McPhee
(hillslopes)
Lab 7: Debris
flows
Week 10:
M (11/6) Glaciers
W (11/8) Glaciers
F (11/10) Glaciers
Ch. 9; Hallet and others
Lab 8: Glaciers I
Week 11:
M (11/13) Glaciers
W (11/15) Glaciers
F (11/17) Glaciers & Climate
Ch. 10; MacGregor and others
Lab 9: Glaciers II
Week 12:
M (11/20) Hour
Exam II
W (11/22) No
class
F (11/24) No class – Thanksgiving Holiday
No reading
Lab 10: Meetings
on final projects
Week 13:
M (11/27) Glacial Lakes
W (11/29) Glacial
Lakes
F (12/1) Glacial
Lakes
TBA
Lab 11:
Limnological Research Center (field trip)
Week 14:
M (12/4) Quaternary Dating
W (12/6) Quaternary
Dating
F (12/8) Quaternary Dating
Burbank and Anderson; Stock and others
No lab – work on final projects
Week 15:
M (12/11) Final Presentations
W (12/13) No
class (Kelly at AGU)
F (12/15) No class (Kelly at AGU – Papers due
at 5 pm today!)
Lab 12:
Presentations
No reading
W (12/20) Final
Exam (10:30 am - 12:30 pm)