GEOL 397 - Seminar

Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit.

Prerequisite: GEOL 100, 101 or 105. Open to GEOL majors only. The title, term of meeting, and credits for seminars will be announced to all geology majors. May be repeated for degree credit with permission and if the topics are different.

Winter 2014 Topic:

GEOL 397: Glaciology and Glacial Geology (3). Prerequisite: GEOL 100, 101 or 105. For the last 30 million years, glaciers have marched to the orbital drumbeat of our cooling planet. Glacial advances and retreats are fundamental components of Neogene because their erosion and deposition shape a good portion of the geological record and their appearance alters sea level, climate and tectonics. This seminar explores the creation, movement and disappearance of glacial ice, the morphology of glaciers, and the landforms and deposits they leave behind. We use textbooks, primary geological literature, numerical and analogue modeling and discussion to explore the breadth of this field. Harbor