Geology for the Naturalist, Jerry Cinnamon and John Hopeck (Check this book for required and recommended reading assignments for any given week. Recommended readings will be from books and other materials on Closed Reserve.)
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| September 3 | Properties of Minerals | Deep Time |
| September 5 | Intrusive Igneous Rocks | |
| September 7 | Deep Time | |
| September 10 | Introduction to Term Projects | Rock Compositions and Textures |
| September 12 | Extrusive Igneous Rocks | |
| September 14 | Rock Compositions and Textures | |
| September 17 | Chemical and Physical Weathering | Mt. Waldo Quarry |
| September 19 | Sediment and Soil Formation | |
| September 21 | Mt. Waldo Quarry | |
| September 24 | Clastic Sedimentary Rocks | Winslow Bridge |
| September 26 | Limestones and Chemical Sediments | |
| September 28 | Winslow Bridge | |
| October 1 | Contact Metamorphism | Twitchell Corner |
| October 3 | Regional Metamorphism | |
| October 5 | Twitchell Corner | |
| October 10 | ||
| October 12 | Frye Mountain | |
| October 15 | Reading and Drawing Topographic Maps | Frye Mountain |
| October 17 | Constructing Topographic Cross-Sections | |
| October 19 | Palermo | |
| October 22 | Ice Ages | Palermo |
| October 24 | Mountain Glaciation | |
| October 26 | Appleton Ridge | |
| October 29 | Continental Glaciation | Appleton Ridge |
| October 31 | Fluvial Erosion, Transport, and Deposition | |
| November 2 | Albion Gravel Pit | |
| November 5 | Fluvial Landscapes | Albion Gravel Pit |
| November 7 | Relative Geologic Time I | |
| November 9 | Esker - Delta Complex | |
| November 12 | Relative Geologic Time II | Esker - Delta Complex |
| November 14 | Absolute Geologic Time I | |
| November 16 | Sandy Stream | |
| November 19 | Absolute Geologic Time II | Sandy Stream |
| November 26 | Structure of the Earth | Paleontology |
| November 28 | The Sea Floor I | |
| November 30 | Paleontology | |
| December 3 | The Sea Floor II | NO LAB: WORK ON TERM PROJECTS |
| December 5 | Evidence for Plate Tectonics | |
| December 6 | Sandy Stream Project Presentations, Location to be Announced | |
| December 7 | NO LAB: WORK ON TERM PROJECTS; FIRST VERSION DUE BY 5:00 PM | |
| December 10 | Convergent Margins | NO LAB: WORK ON TERM PROJECTS |
| December 12 | Divergent Margins | |
| December 14 | NO LAB: WORK ON TERM PROJECTS |