Volcanology
GEO439
Franklin & Marshall College
Department of Earth and Environment
Geology 439, Volcanology
Spring Semester, 2002
TEACHER: Dr. Stan Mertzman
Office: P-121A
Office hours: W: 1:30-4:30 PM.; Th and F: 1:30-3:00 PM.; or by appointment.
Telephone: At School: 291-3818; At Home: 295-1290
E-mail: stan.mertzman (the easiest and best way to get in touch with me.)
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My goal in this course is to help you arrive at an understanding of the broad field of volcanology. My hope is that this course will enable you to understand how each of the volcanic landscapes you may visit during your life came into being and evolved as a function of time, over the short term as well as the long term.
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Course Text: Encyclopedia of Volcanoes (2000) edited by H. Sigurdsson. As you would have predicted, your mineralogy and petrology texts will still be of considerable use to you.
Class convenes in P-111; Lab convenes in P-111 at 1:30 PM beginning the week of January 21, 2002.
Attendance Policy: You are permitted 2 un-excused absences from class during the term. The 3th absence will cause your final grade to diminish by 1/3 of a letter grade and so on. Attendance at all labs is (as always) mandatory.
Grading: 30% for mid-term examination.
30% for the final examination.
30% for the research paper.
10% for class participation, homework assignments, etc.
Examination Schedule: Wednesday, February 27, 2002
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The following syllabus lists the assigned lecture readings for each class meeting together with the
appropriate pages in the textbook. This material should be read prior to coming to the class meeting.
Date: Topic; Chapter and Pages
Jan.16: Course introduction; Guide (2 pages) Introduction (pp. 1-13), History of Volc (15-37)
Jan. 21: Part 1: Origin and transport of magma; Jeanloz, Asimov, Daines articles
Jan. 23: Part 1 continued; Perfit-Davidson article
Jan. 28: Part 1 continued; Rogers-Hawkesworth article
Jan. 30: Part 1 continued; Grove, Wallace, Spera articles
Feb. 4: Part 1 continued; Marsh, Rutherford, Carrigan, and Jaupart articlea
Feb. 6: Part 2 Eruption; Simkin, Pyle, and Sigurdsson articles
Feb. 11: Part 3 Effusive Volcanism; Walker, Kilburn, and Connor articles
Feb. 13: Part 3 continued; Fink and Hooper articles
Feb. 18: Part 3 continued; Batiza and Schmidt articles
Feb. 20: Part 5 Extraterrestrial Volcanism; Spudis and Lopes-Gautier articles
Feb. 25: Part 5 continued; Crumpler and Zimbelman articles
Feb. 27: Mid-term Examination
Spring Break from Friday, March 1, 2002 @ 4:20 PM until Monday, March 11, 2002, @ 8:00 AM.
March 11
March 13
March 18
March 20
March 25
March 27
April 1
April 3
April 8
April 10
April 15
April 17
April 22
April 24
Reading Days are April 27 through April 29, 2002. Final Exams begin Tuesday, April 30, 2002.
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The final examination in this course is scheduled by the Registrar's Office, not by your instructor. Please check the time and place of the exam on the "final exam schedule" which usually becomes available in late February, just before spring break.
SCHEDULE OF LABORATORY EVENTS
Jan. 21: Learning about analytical tools: Part 1.
Jan. 28: Learning about analytical tools: Part 2.
Feb. 4: Discussion of analytical results from 1/21 and 1/28/02.
Feb. 11: Hawaiian Basalts
Feb. 18: Southern Cascade Basalts
Feb. 25: Peridotites – the source of most basalt magma
March 4 NO LAB. SPRING BREAK
March 11
March 18
March 25
April 1
April 8
April 15
April 22
