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GEOL   102 EVOLUTION OF THE EARTH                   Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
           * RESTRICTED DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP III
History of the earth and evolution of continents, ocean basins, life and
climate over the past 4.6 billion years.
Prereq- Geol 101 is recommended but not required.
001 TTH     09:25AM-10:40AM GL*105   Rodriguez, Antonio             *CURRENT ENR: 0

GEOL   103 FIELD TRIPS FOR THE EARTH                Credits 2.00  Spring 2000
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP III
Four evening lectures of one hour each prior to one long field trip.
Coreq- Geol 101.
001 TBA     TBA                      Heymann, Dieter                *CURRENT ENR: 0

GEOL   105 INTRO LAB FOR GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES        Credits 1.00  Spring 2000
Exercises on rocks, minerals, stratigraphy, paleontology, mapping and
plate tectonics.  Normally taken with Geol 101 or 102.  This lab is
recommended before taking advanced courses in Geology.
Required of all geology or geophysics majors.
001 T       01:00PM-04:00PM GL*105   Wright, James                  *CURRENT ENR: 0
001                                  Droxler, Andre                 *CURRENT ENR: 0
001                                  Zelt, Colin                    *CURRENT ENR: 0
001                                  Lenardic, Adrian               *CURRENT ENR: 0

GEOL   202 GEOSCIENCES IN HUMAN AFFAIRS             Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP III
The historical development of geoscience.  Application of geophysical
methods to learn about the Earth's interior and to explore for oil and
other minerals.  (For coherent minors, non-majors, and majors.)
Prereq- Geol 101 is recommended but not required.
001 TTH     09:25AM-10:40AM GL*206E  Talwani, Manik                 *CURRENT ENR: 0

GEOL   312 PETROLOGY                                Credits 4.00  Spring 2000
Description and interpretation of igneous and metamorphic rocks.
Laboratory work emphasizes study of rock thin sections with petrographic
microscope and includes a one weekend field trip.
001 MWF     10:00AM-10:50AM GL*307   Wright, James                  *CURRENT ENR: 0
001 W       01:00PM-04:00PM GL*307   Wright, James                  *CURRENT ENR: 0
001                                  Luttge, Andreas                *CURRENT ENR: 0

GEOL   314 PETROLOGY (WITHOUT LAB)                  Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
Same as Geol 312 without the laboratory.
001 MWF     10:00AM-10:50AM GL*307   Wright, James                  *CURRENT ENR: 0
001                                  Luttge, Andreas                *CURRENT ENR: 0

GEOL   332 SEDIMENTOLOGY                            Credits 4.00  Spring 2000
Processes in sedimentation and sedimentary rocks including both clastic
and carbonate rocks.  Laboratory exercises include two one-weekend field
trips.
001 MWF     09:00AM-09:50AM GL*302   Anderson, John                 *CURRENT ENR: 0
001 F       01:00PM-04:00PM GL*307   Anderson, John                 *CURRENT ENR: 0
001                                  Droxler, Andre                 *CURRENT ENR: 0

GEOL   334 GEOL & GEOPHYS TECHNIQUES                Credits 2.00  Spring 2000
Beginning field techniques taught in seven labs and extended field
excursion during mid-term recess.
001 M       12:00PM-01:00PM GL*202   Morgan, Julia                  *CURRENT ENR: 0

GEOL   353 ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY                  Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
Theories and problems of chemical hazards in the environment due to
natural processes, with emphasis on low-temperature aqueous systems.
001 MTH     02:00PM-03:30PM GL*307   Luttge, Andreas                *CURRENT ENR: 0

GEOL   406 SEM:CURRENT RES IN EARTH SCI.            Credits 1.00  Spring 2000
A series of lectures on current research in various areas of geology
and geophysics.
001 W       04:00PM-05:00PM GL*106   TBA                            *CURRENT ENR: 0

GEOL   415 ECONOMIC GEOLOGY-PETROLEUM               Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
A study of the geology of petroleum: origin, migration, and
accumulation will be studied.  Government regulation and industry
economics will be examined.
001 TBA     TBA                      Riese, R.                      *CURRENT ENR: 0

GEOL   423 ANTARCTIC MARINE GEOLOGY                 Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
The study of marine geologic principles and processes using examples
from the Southern Oceans.
001 MWF     11:00AM-11:50AM GL*105   Anderson, John                 *CURRENT ENR: 0

GEOL   441 GEOPHYSICAL DATA ANALYSIS                Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
Review of linear algebra and probability.  Discrete inverse theory,
data fitting, model parameter estimation, linear and nonlinear methods,
model assessment, global optimation.
Prereq- Math 211, Nsci 230 or equivalent programming experience.
001 TTH     09:25AM-10:40AM GL*307   Zelt, Colin                    *CURRENT ENR: 0

GEOL   444 REFLECTION SEISMIC DATA PROCESSING LAB   Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
Experience with processing reflection seismic data.  The lab covers
seismic data organization, velocity analysis, stacking, filtering,
deconvolution, migration, and display, using the Geophysical Computing
Facilities DISCO seismic processing system.
Prereq- Geol 442
001 TTH     01:00PM-01:50PM GL*106   Sawyer, Dale                   *CURRENT ENR: 0
001                                  Morozov, Igor                  *CURRENT ENR: 0

GEOL   446 SOLID EARTH GEOPHYSICS                   Credits 4.00  Spring 2000
A review of the structure of the Earth and key physical processes that
have shaped it.  The course topics include the geometry of plate
tectonics, past plate motions and paleomagnetism, seismology, the
gravitational field, geochronology, heat in the Earth, and the features
of continental and oceanic lithosphere.  Laboratory exercises are
computer based.  Each involves using data and modern software to
constrain aspects of the Earth's structure or history.  Some labs are
based on classical analyses from the literature, while others are based
on observations, acquired using the Internet, of current geophysical
events.
001 TTH     10:50AM-12:05PM GL*105   Talwani, Manik                 *CURRENT ENR: 0
001                                  Lenardic, Adrian               *CURRENT ENR: 0

GEOL   454 GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SCIENCE           Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
Introduction to geographic information systems (GIS) technology, mapping
sciences, and spatial analysis. The course will include extensive
computer use and the completion of a major individual project on a topic
selected by the student.
001 MWF     09:00AM-09:50AM GL*105   Sawyer, Dale                   *CURRENT ENR: 0

GEOL   461 SEISMOLOGY I                             Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
Principles of elastic wave initiation, propagation, and reflection in
ideal media and real rocks.
Prereq- Math 211, Phys 101, 102.  Math 212 recommended, may be taken
concurrently.
001 TBA     TBA                      Levander, Alan                 *CURRENT ENR: 0
001                                  Symes, William                 *CURRENT ENR: 0

GEOL   467 NEOTECTONICS                             Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
This is a semester long course in active tectonics and the techniques
involved in neotectonic studies, designed for uppler level undergraduate
geology majors and beginning graduate students. Also appropriate for
students of related sciences involving field studies such as geography,
archaeology, or civil engineering. Designed in a format of two lectures
per week, 1 to 1-1/2 hour duration. Some lecture periods are devoted to
exercises. The course also involves a 1/2 to 1-day field trip around
Houston to view surface effects of growth faulting.
Prereq- GEOL 331.
001 TBA     TBA             TBA      TBA                            *CURRENT ENR: 0

GEOL   482 SENIOR RESEARCH IN GEOLOGY               Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
See Geol 481.
001 TBA     TBA                      TBA                            *CURRENT ENR: 0

GEOL   492 SPECIAL STUDIES                          Credits 1.00  Spring 2000
See Geol 491.
001 TBA     TBA                      TBA                            *CURRENT ENR: 0

GEOL   502 SPECIAL STUDIES                          Credits 1.00  Spring 2000
See Geol 501.
001 TBA     TBA                      TBA                            *CURRENT ENR: 0

GEOL   506 CARBONATE SEDIMENTOLOGY                  Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
Characterization of modern and ancient, shallow and deep sedimentary
environments and facies.  Examination of different depositional models
in relation to climate, as well as hydrographic and geographic settings.
Three field trips.
Prereq- Geol 332.
001 TBA     TBA                      Droxler, Andre                 *CURRENT ENR: 0
001                                  Dravis, Jeffrey                *CURRENT ENR: 0

GEOL   510 INTRO TO MODELING GEOLOGIC PROCESSES     Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
This seminar course is open to all advanced undergraduate and graduate
students interested in the application of quantitative modeling methods
to geological problems. The course will offer students the opportunity
to explore the capabilites of servral different numerical and physical
modeling techniques for studying discontinuous and continuous behavior
of the Earth. **User-friendly** numerical simulation tools will be made
available to students, especially those used by the instructors, for
example, the Finite Element (Lenardic) and the Discrete Element Methods
(Morgan). Previous modeling experience is not required.
001 TBA     TBA             TBA      Lenardic, Adrian               *CURRENT ENR: 0
001                                  Morgan, Julia                  *CURRENT ENR: 0

GEOL   512 FIELD TRIP TO OPHIOLITES ECIOGITES, BIUE Credits 1.00  Spring 2000
001 TBA     TBA                      AveLallemant, Hans             *CURRENT ENR: 0

GEOL   516 CARBONATE SEMINAR: CARBONATES & SEA LEVE Credits 2.00  Spring 2000
001 TBA     TBA                      Droxler, Andre                 *CURRENT ENR: 0

GEOL   520 SEM:SEISMOLOGY:THE DEEP STRUCTURE & EVOL Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
001 TTH     02:00PM-03:30PM GL*302   Lenardic, Adrian               *CURRENT ENR: 0

GEOL   524 SEMINAR:  OUTCROP SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY  Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
001 TTH     10:00AM-12:00PM GL*202   Vail, Peter                    *CURRENT ENR: 0

GEOL   527 SEM: PRINCIPLES & PRACTICE OF PETROLEUM  Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
Focus on principles of petroleum geochemistry and their integration into
the multi-disciplinary processes of petroleum exploration and
exploitation.  Discuss how petroleum geochemistry is used to assess risk
factors in exploration plays (source, thermal history, hydrocarbon
expulsion and migration), and to constrain exploitation planing (fluid
heterogeneity and reservoir compartmentalization; trap capacity vs.
hydrocarbon charge: hydrocarbon alteration and phase segregation
manifestations; etc.
Prereq- Basic geology and Geochemistry.
001 M       01:00PM-04:00PM GL*105   Bissada, K.                    *CURRENT ENR: 0

GEOL   555 ADV TOP-GEOCHEMISTRY                     Credits 4.00  Spring 2000
Study of selected topics, particularly remote sensing geochronology,
radiometry, isotope and trace element analysis.
001                                  Luttge, Andreas                *CURRENT ENR: 0

GEOL   568 STRUC ANALYSIS DEFORMED ROCKS            Credits 4.00  Spring 2000
001 MWF     11:00AM-11:50AM GL*307   AveLallemant, Hans             *CURRENT ENR: 0

GEOL   580 PREP OF M.A. THESIS PROPOSAL             Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
See Geol 579.
001 WF      02:30PM-07:00PM GL*106   TBA                            *CURRENT ENR: 0

GEOL   590 PREP OF PH.D. THESIS PROPOSAL            Credits 3.00  Spring 2000
See Geol 589.
001 M       02:30PM-07:00PM GL*106   TBA                            *CURRENT ENR: 0

GEOL   800 THESIS RESEARCH                          Credits 1.00  Spring 2000
001 TTH     02:30PM-06:00PM GL*106   TBA                            *CURRENT ENR: 0

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