Week               Topics                                                                    Dolgoff     

0         Solar system, craters, meteorites                                       21, 11

1        Earth's interior: materials and conditions                           4, 1

2         Plate Tectonics and Continental Drift:  Big Picture            2, 1, 12

3         Faults, Fault Movement, Earthquakes                                 3, 11     

Optional field trip to Seattle Fault  

4         Minerals and Crystals, Growth, Uses                                    5, 16

5         Magma, Volcanoes, Igneous Rocks, Plate Tectonics         7, 6

6          Sediment and Sedimentary Rocks                                        8, 13

7         Metamorphism and Metamorphic Rocks                               9, 12

8         Glaciers, Glacial Eras, Glacial Landforms                            17

9        Groundwater, Rivers and Streams, Floods                         15, 16

10       Mass Movement, Landslides, Earthflows                            14 

Optional field trip to Seattle landslides        

11        Waves, Currents, Beaches, Shorelines                                19

 
The chapters listed for Dolgoff are just a rough guide. I will give specific reading assignments in class. You will not read every page in every chapter.  

* All dates, topics, chapters, etc. subject to change etc. without notice etc.

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