San Andreas Fault

Hawaiian lava flow

Mount St. Helens

Geology of Planet Earth (GEOL 101)
Dr. Dayanthie Weeraratne
Dept. of Geological Sciences, CSUN
Live Oak Hall, Rm# 1203
Email: dsw@csun.edu
Office hours: Wednesdays 3-5 pm or by appt.
Text Book: Physical Geology, by Plummer, Carlson, & Hammersley

Field Trip to see the San Andreas Fault!
Saturday, April 27, 2013. Mark your calendar!

Syllabus 9:30 am, PDF
Syllabus 11:00 am, PDF

Week #1, Introduction to Geology and Plate Tectonics PPT

Week #2, Tectonics and Geologic History PPT

Homework #1: Cascadia Plate boundary and volcano activity PDF

Week #3, Minerals and Atoms, Oh my! PPT

Homework #2: Mineral Identification PDF

Week #4-5, Volcanoes! PPT

Homework #3: Review Chap1-4,18,19 PDF


MIDTERM #1, Wednesday, April 3, 2013 (Chapt 1-4,18,19)
Bring Scantron (NEW) Form #19641

Week #6-8, Weathering and Sedimentary Rocks

Weathering, PPT

Sedimentary Rocks PPT

Week #11, Ground Water PPT

Week #13-14, Structural Geology PPT

Homework #4: Review Chap 5,6,11,15 PDF

MIDTERM #2, Monday, May 6, 2013 (Chapters 5,6,11,15).
Bring Scantron (NEW) Form #19641

Week #15, Earthquakes PPT

Week #16, The Earth's Interior PPT

Class Project DUE on Wednesday May 8, 2013 (Required: 2 pages worth 70 points)





Cool Geology Links:
Earthquakes around the world, today!
Indian Ocean Tsunami
Cascade Volcano Observatory
NASA: It's out of this world!