2024-25 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
    Dec 04, 2024  
2024-25 Undergraduate Catalog
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GLY 481 - Field Geology

Intensive study of field methods and techniques; elementary and detailed areal geology mapping. Compilation of stratigraphic sections, geologic maps and structure sections. Offered summers at the Brauer Field Station beginning in late May. Can be taken as a four-week course for four credit hours or as a five-week course for five or six credit hours. Prerequisites: GLY 302, GLY 359, GLY 469, junior standing. Fulfills: LASR. (4-6 cr. hr.)
Frequency code M = offered in summer

Student Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

  1. Describe carbonate sedimentary rocks and use those descriptions to correlate rock units between several localities.
  2. Describe surficial deposits, and use those descriptions to map the locations of the deposits using plane surveying and basic GPS techniques.
  3. Map sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic bedrock units with simple to complex structures.
  4. Visualize three-dimensional geology by constructing cross-sections from their maps.



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