Rice Course Schedule, Spring 2000
Geology and Geophysics (GEOL)
Rice Course Schedule as of 01/03/2000.
This schedule is maintained by the Office of the Registrar
(reg@rice.edu).
NOTE: Course web pages are available for some GEOL courses.
GEOL 102 EVOLUTION OF THE EARTH Credits 3.00 Spring 00
* 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 TBA - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA
GEOL 103 FIELD TRIPS FOR THE EARTH Credits 2.00 Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP III
Four evening lectures of one hour each prior to one long field trip.
001 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA
GEOL 105 INTRO LAB FOR GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES Credits 1.00 Spring 00
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 TBA - T 01:00PM - 04:00PM Droxler, Andre W. Enr: 0 Max: NA
Lenardic, Adrian
Wright, James E.
Zelt, Colin Andrew
GEOL 108 CRISES OF THE EARTH Credits 3.00 Spring 00
* RESTRICTED DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP III
Geological and environmental crises, including meteorite impacts, global
extinctions, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and the impact of man on the
environment, have affected the Earth over its entire history. This course
presents an overview of historical perspectives and scientific background of
these processes, development of these processes, development of predictive
scenarios, and adaptions of society to these hazards. A FOUNDATION COURSE
001 TBA Sawyer, Dale S. Enr: 0 Max: NA
GEOL 202 GEOSCIENCES IN HUMAN AFFAIRS Credits 3.00 Spring 00
* 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 TBA - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM Talwani, Manik Enr: 0 Max: NA
GEOL 312 PETROLOGY Credits 4.00 Spring 00
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 TBA - MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM
GL 307 Luttge, Andreas Enr: 0 Max: NA
Wright, James E.
GEOL 314 PETROLOGY (WITHOUT LAB) Credits 3.00 Spring 00
Same as Geol 312 without the laboratory.
001 TBA - MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM Luttge, Andreas Enr: 0 Max: NA
Wright, James E.
GEOL 332 SEDIMENTOLOGY Credits 4.00 Spring 00
Processes in sedimentation and sedimentary rocks including both clastic and
carbonate rocks. Laboratory exercises include two one-weekend field trips.
001 TBA - MWF 09:00AM - 09:50AM
GL 307 Anderson, John B. Enr: 0 Max: NA
Droxler, Andre W.
GEOL 334 GEOLOGICAL AND GEOPHYSICAL TECHNIQUES Credits 2.00 Spring 00
Beginning field techniques taught in seven labs and extended field excursion
during mid-term recess.
001 TBA - M 12:00PM - 01:00PM Morgan, Julia Enr: 0 Max: NA
GEOL 353 ENVIRONMENTAL GEOCHEMISTRY Credits 3.00 Spring 00
Theories and problems of chemical hazards in the environment due to natural
processes, with emphasis on low-temperature aqueous systems.
001 TBA - MT 02:00PM - 03:30PM Luttge, Andreas Enr: 0 Max: NA
GEOL 406 SEMINAR:CURRENT RESEARCH IN EARTH SCIENC Credits 1.00 Spring 00
A series of lectures on current research in various areas of geology and
geophysics.
001 TBA - W 04:00PM - 05:00PM Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA
GEOL 408 CURRENT TOPICS IN CONTINENTAL TECTONICS Credits 3.00 Spring 00
In depth investigating of selected current research problems in Continental
Tectonics. Course content may vary from year to year depending on interest of
students.
Prereq- Consent of instructor
001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max:
GEOL 412 IGNEOUS PETROLOGY Credits 4.00 Spring 00
Evaluation of the evolution of igneous rocks in the earth's crust and mantle.
Topics will include phase equilibria, experimental studies, and geochemistry.
Labs will stress thin section petrography.
001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max:
GEOL 415 ECONOMIC GEOLOGY-PETROLEUM Credits 3.00 Spring 00
A study of the geology of petroleum: origin, migration, and accumulation will
be studied. Government regulation and industry economics will be examined.
001 TBA Riese, W. C. Enr: 0 Max: 5
GEOL 423 ANTARTIC MARINE GEOLOGY Credits 3.00 Spring 00
The study of marine geologic principles and processes using examples from the
Southern Oceans.
001 TBA Anderson, John B. Enr: 0 Max: NA
GEOL 428 STRUCTURAL INTERPRETATION OF REFLECTION Credits 4.00 Spring 00
Practical application of methods used in the tectonic analysis of deformed
belts. Includes case studies of deformed belts from around the world, with
emphasis on the use of map, statigraphic, structural potential field, and
seismic reflection data as a means of integrating surface and subsurface
relations, as well as on the use of restorable structural sections and forward
simulations in developing time-integrated, three-dimensional models.
001 TBA - TTH 05:00PM - 07:00PM Tari, Gabor Enr: 0 Max: NA
GEOL 441 GEOPHYSICAL DATA ANALYSIS Credits 4.00 Spring 00
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 TBA - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM Zelt, Colin Andrew Enr: 0 Max: NA
GEOL 444 REFLECTION SEISMIC DATA PROCESSING LAB Credits 2.00 Spring 00
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 TBA - TTH 01:00PM - 01:50PM Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA
GEOL 446 SOLID EARTH GEOPHYSICS Credits 4.00 Spring 00
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 TBA - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM Lenardic, Adrian Enr: 0 Max: NA
Sawyer, Dale S.
Talwani, Manik
GEOL 454 GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SCIENCE Credits 3.00 Spring 00
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 TBA Sawyer, Dale S. Enr: 0 Max: 15
GEOL 461 SEISMOLOGY I Credits 4.00 Spring 00
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 Levander, Alan R. Enr: 0 Max: NA
Symes, William W.
GEOL 462 GEOPHYSICS Credits 4.00 Spring 00
Applications of continuum physics to the deformation, flexure, heat transfer,
and gravity field of the lithosphere.
Prereq- Math 211, 212.
001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max:
GEOL 464 FUND. OF PLATE TECTONICS Credits 3.00 Spring 00
Introduction of plate tectonic theory concerning geometric constraints to plate
motions, driving mechanisms, behavior at plate boundaries, and intraplate
tectonism.
001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max:
GEOL 467 NEOTECTONICS Credits 3.00 Spring 00
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 Staff Enr: 0 Max:
GEOL 468 PALEOCLIMATE & HUMAN RESPONSE Credits 3.00 Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Palaeoscientists have records extending through the Holocene of forcing
process, such as climate, that influence humans. We examine these records and
their impact on past and present society. We explore the concept of social
memory, used to understand how past communities use information about climate
change and past responses in long-term adaptive strategies.
Also offered as ANTH 468
001 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA
GEOL 475 PLIO-PLEISTOCENE CLIMATE CHANGE & HOMID Credits 3.00 Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP III
Junctures in the evolution of the hominids appear to coincide with shifts in
the Earth's climate record. We will explore the current status of our
knowledge of global climate in the Plio-Pleistocene and of the hominid record
from the end of the Miocene to the appearance of H. Sapiens sapiens.
Also offered as ANTH 475
001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max:
GEOL 482 SENIOR RESEARCH IN GEOLOGY Credits Spring 00
See Geol 481.
001 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA
GEOL 492 SPECIAL STUDIES - UNDERGRADUATE Credits Spring 00
See Geol 491.
001 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA
GEOL 502 SPECIAL STUDIES - GRADUATE Credits Spring 00
See Geol 501.
001 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA
GEOL 506 CARBONATE SEDIMENTOLOGY Credits 3.00 Spring 00
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 Dravis, Jeffrey Enr: 0 Max: NA
Droxler, Andre W.
GEOL 510 INTRO TO MODELING GEOLOGIC PROCESSES Credits 3.00 Spring 00
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 Lenardic, Adrian Enr: 0 Max:
Morgan, Julia
GEOL 512 FIELD TRIP TO OPHIOLITES, ECIOGITES,BIUE Credits 1.00 Spring 00
No description
001 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA
GEOL 516 CARBONATE SEMINAR: CARBONATES & SEA LEVE Credits 3.00 Spring 00
No description
001 TBA Droxler, Andre W. Enr: 0 Max: NA
GEOL 520 SEM: SEISMOLOGY Credits 3.00 Spring 00
No description
001 TBA - TTH 02:00PM - 03:30PM Lenardic, Adrian Enr: 0 Max: NA
Levander, Alan R.
GEOL 524 SEM: OUTCROP SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY Credits 3.00 Spring 00
No description
001 TBA - TTH 10:00AM - 12:00PM Vail, Peter R. Enr: 0 Max: NA
GEOL 527 SEM: PRINCIPLES & PRACTICE OF PETROLEUM Credits 3.00 Spring 00
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 TBA - M 01:00PM - 04:00PM Bissada, K. K. Enr: 0 Max: NA
GEOL 530 SEM: MARINE GEOPHY.TECHNIQUES, INSTRUMEN Credits 3.00 Spring 00
No description
001 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA
GEOL 531 SEM: SAN ANDREAS FAULT SYSTEM Credits 3.00 Spring 00
No description
001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max:
GEOL 532 PLEISTOCENE SEQ. STRATIGRAPHY Credits 2.00 Spring 00
No description
001 TBA TBA Enr: 0 Max:
GEOL 542 WAVE PROPAGATION IN HETEROGENEOUS MEDIA Credits 3.00 Spring 00
Review of elastodynamics. Calculation of synthetic seismograms for acoustic
and elastic media using reflectivity, asymptotic and finite difference methods.
Migration of reflection data by finite difference, FK and boundary integral
methods.
Prereq- Geol. 441, 442, 461.
001 TBA Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA
GEOL 555 ADV TOP IN GEOCHEMISTRY- REACTION KINETI Credits 4.00 Spring 00
Study of selected topics, particularly remote sensing geochronology,
radiometry, isotope and trace element analysis.
001 TBA Luttge, Andreas Enr: 0 Max: NA
GEOL 568 STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF DEFORMED ROCKS Credits 4.00 Spring 00
No description
001 TBA - MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM Ave Lallemant, Hans G. Enr: 0 Max: NA
GEOL 574 ELECTRON MICROPROBE/SCANNING ELECTRON MI Credits 2.00 Spring 00
Fundamental principles, techniques, and applications of the Electron
Microprobe/SEM. Emphasis on quantitative analysis and geological problems.
Practical laboratory instruction and experience in analytical techniques.
001 TBA Sisson, Virginia Enr: 0 Max: NA
GEOL 580 PREPARATION OF M.A. THESIS PROPOSAL Credits 0.00 Spring 00
See Geol 579.
001 TBA - WF 02:30PM - 07:00PM Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA
GEOL 590 PREPARATION OF PH.D THESIS PROPOSAL Credits 3.00 Spring 00
See Geol 589.
001 TBA - M 02:30PM - 07:00PM Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA
GEOL 800 THESIS RESEARCH Credits Spring 00
No description
001 TBA - TTH 02:30PM - 07:00PM Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA
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