Required Classes For Majors

**Earth in Action.
GEOL 100. (3 hrs.) An introduction to the materials making up the earth, and to the internal and surface processes that shape and change our planet. Three hours rec. Week. See line schedule for days, times, and places.

**Earth Through Time.
GEOL 102. (3 hrs.) An introduction to the immensity of geologic time, and a review of the history of the earth and the life upon it. Three hours rec. a week. Pr.: GEOL 100

**Geology Laboratory.
GEOL 103. (1 hr.) Field and laboratory investigation of minerals, rocks, and fossils; use of maps; environmental studies; erosion, transportation, sedi-mentation. Lab to accompany GEOL 100, 102,105, or 125. See line schedule for days and times. All sections meet in T109.

**Historical Geology Laboratory.
GEOL 301. (1 hr.) Field and laboratory investigations of the history of the earth and its fossil record. Dept. majors only. Pr.: GEOL 102

**Mineralogy.
GEOL 502. (3 hrs.) Crystallography; physical and chemical properties of minerals; descriptive mineralogy. Two hours lec. and three hours lab a week. Pr.: GEOL 100 or 105, 130, and CHM 230. M-W 8:30, T216

**Petrology.
GEOL 503. (3 hrs.) Petrology of igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks. Two hours lec. and three hours lab a week.

**Geomorphology.
GEOL 520. (2 hrs.) Laboratory exercises in reading and interpreting topographic maps and aerial photographs; field studies of landforms and surficial deposits, with an emphasis on earth-surface processes.

**Structural Geology.
GEOL 530. (3 hrs.) Mechanics of the earth's crust; origin and interrelation of structures of the earth. Two hours rec. and three hours lab a week.

**Field Methods.
GEOL 560. (3 hrs.) Introduction to methods used to collectgeologic data in the field. One hour rec. and four hours lab a week.

**Invertebrate Fossils.
GEOL 581. (3 hrs.) Systematics, biology, ecology, and preservational environment of ancient life, with emphasis on marine invertebrates and calcareous algae. Six hours lab/lecture a week. Pr.:GEOL 502 and junior standing.

**Stratigraphy-Sedimentation.
GEOL 630. (3) Description, classification, correlation, chronology, and paleogeography of sedimentary rock systems and the depositional environments in which they formed. Three hours rec. and three hours lab a week.

**Geophysics (or Geochemistry).
GEOL 640. (3) Introduction to the broad area of solid earth geophysics and exploration geophysics, such as plate tectonics, earthquakes, structure and dynamics of the Earth's deep interior, and geophysical exploration for natural resources. Two hours lecture and two hours lab a week.