22 courses in the 1969–70 Undergraduate Calendar, read from the scanned original. The text comes from OCR, so check the scanned page before relying on a detail.
Department of Earth Sciences
Professor P.F. Karrow, B.Se. (Queen’s). Ph.D. (Illinois)
Chairman of the Department
Associate Professor E.C. Appleyard, B.Sc. (Western), M.Sc. (Queen’s), Ph.D. (Cambridge) Assistant Professor C.R. Barnes, B.Sc. (Birmingham), Ph.D. (Ottawa)
Assistant Professor D.E. Lawson, B.Sc.,M.Sc.(New Brunswick)
Assistant Professor R.G. Roberts, B.A. (Cambridge), M.Sc., Ph.D. (McGill)
Assistant Professor D.L. Salter, B.Sc., Ph.D. (Southampton)
Undergraduate Course Descriptions
Details of the undergraduate programmes offered by the Faculty of Science are to be found on page 94.
Earth Sciences 130 is prerequisite for all later courses in Earth Sciences with the exception of Earth Sciences 230 and 231.All those majoring in Earth Sciences are required to take a two-week field camp at the end of second or third year. Earth Sciences students are encouraged to seek geological employment in the summers.
130 | ntroductory Geology An elementary introduction to rocks, minerals, and fossils, geological processes and their effects, structural geology, economic geology, and historical geology. Map study. Field trips.
2 lectures, 3 hours laboratory.
related to physical and morphological properties. Mineral chemistry. Systematic and determinative mineralogy; occurrence of rock-forming and common ore minerals. (Fall Term). Crystallography and stereographic projection. Principles of optical crystallography and the optical identification of minerals. (Winter Term). 2 lectures and 2 hours laboratory.
the first half of Earth Sciences 230.
morphic rocks. The study of rocks in thin sections. Laboratory study of petrographic methods and problems.
2 lectures, 2 hours laboratory, winter term.
raphy, and photogrammetry. Includes a two-week field camp at the end of second or third year.
4 hours laboratory. fail term.
and orogenesis.
2 lectures, 2 hours laboratory, winter term.
tion. Erosional and depositional processes. Laboratory study of topographic maps and air photo interpretation. Field trips.
2 lectures, 3 hours laboratory, fall term.
Department of Earth Sciences 181
matic series and igneous provinces. Controls of metamorphic crystallization; metamorphic facies concepts and series. Laboratory study of rocks and rock suites.
Prerequisite: Earth Sciences 230.
2 lectures. 2 hours laboratory.
tion. The morphology, taxonomy, evolution, paleoecology, and_stratigraphic value of fossil animals and plants, with special reference to the invertebrates. Field trips and laboratory study of fossils and fossil assemblages.
2 lectures. 2 hours laboratory.
Sedimentation sedimentary structures. Diagenesis. Sedimentary facies, environments and tectonics. Stratigraphic principles and practice. 2 lectures ,3 hours laboratory.
Earth. Seismology and the Earth’s interior. Thermal history of the Earth. Gravity and isostasy. Origin of continents and oceans. Terrestrial magnetism. Meteorology. Oceanography. 2 lectures.
morphic rocks. The physical properties of rocks and the effect of stress on them. The relationship between major and minor structures. Introduction to the methods and interpretation of petrofabrics.
2 lectures, 2 hours laboratory.
mineral deposits. An introduction to mineral economics. The study of important examples, primarily from Canada. Laboratory study will include instruction and practice in ore microscopy.
Prerequisite: Earth Sciences 230. 2 lectures, 2 hours laboratory.
Chemical characteristics of sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic rocks. Theory of distribution patterns and co-efficients of major and minor constituents. The recognition and elucidation of metasomatic rocks. Isotope studies and radiometric dating.
2 lectures, 2 hours laboratory-seminar.
Canadian Precambrian Shield. Other Precambrian rocks in North America and other shield areas throughout the World. 2 lectures, 2 hours laboratory, fall term.
tological data in solving stratigraphic problems. Methods of differentiation and correlation of rock units on the basis of their fossil assembiages. Types of paleontological zones. Field trips.
2 lectures. 2 hours laboratory, fall term.
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ment on a short research project. The results of this will be presented in
thesis form and will be critically examined by members of this and, where pertinent, other departments.
oceans. Geotectonics; orogenesis and epeirogenesis; cratonic and geosyn-
clinal evolution. Shields, island arcs. Study of selected orogenic belts. 2 lectures,2 hours laboratory.
soil and rock mechanics. Urban and environmental geology. 2 lectures,| hour problems. winter term.
groundwater resources.
2 lectures. | hour problems. fai/ term.
glaciation. Laboratory studies on glacial deposits. Field trips. A previous course in geomorphology is recommended.
2 lectures, 3 hour labotory, fall term.
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