Lecture times: Mondays and Fridays 1.30 - 2.30 p.m. Room E202 

Lecturer: Dr. Juan Lorenzo, Room 215 (Old Building) e-mail: juan@geol.lsu.edu 

Present and past lectures and field trips are available at HOMEPAGE 

Office hours: Mondays and Wednesdays by appointment 

Teaching Assistants: Russell Spears and Jaime Curry 

Lecture textbook Davis, G.H. and Reynolds, S.J. 1996. Structural Geology of rocks and regions, John Wiley and Sons, 2nd ed. 776 pp. 

JANUARY

Mon 18 Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday - no class 

Wed 20 Plate Tectonics Ch. 10

Mon 25 Plate Tectonics Ch. 10

Wed 27 Plate Tectonics Ch. 10

FEBRUARY

Mon 1 Plate Tectonics Ch. 10

Wed 3 Plate Tectonics Ch. 10

Mon 8 Plate Tectonics Ch. 10

Wed 10 Faults Ch. 6

Mardi Gras Holidays: Feb. 15 and Feb 16

Wed 17 Faults Ch. 6

Sat Feb 20 FIELD TRIP to Fort Adams
 

Mon 22 review session

Wed 24 MIDTERM EXAM 1

( Feb 26-28 AAPG Field Trip) 

MARCH

Mon 1 Faults Ch. 6

Wed 3 Faults Ch. 6

Sat. March 6 Mapping Field Trip to Fort Adams Group 1

Mon 8 Faults Ch. 6

Wed 10 Faults Ch. 6

(March 12-14 Dr. Anderson's Paleontology Field Trip)

Mon 15 Faults Ch. 6

Wednesday, April 17, Fort Adams field trip report due

Saturday March 20 Mapping Field Trip to Fort Adams Group 2

Wed 17 Faults Ch. 6 and Folds Ch. 7

Mon 22 Folds

Wed 24 Folds

Spring Break March 29 - April 4

APRIL

Thursday, April 1 - Sunday, April 4FIELD TRIP to Alabama with University of South Florida
Mon 6  no class 

Wed 7  Review Session

Mon 12  MIDTERM EXAM II

Monday, April 12 - Mapping Field Trip Reports due for Group 1

Wed 14  Folds

Mon 19 Foldsand their foliation

Monday, April 19, Mapping Field Trip Reports due for Group 2

Wed 21 Joints

Mon 26 Dynamic Analysis Ch. 3

Wed 28 Review session
Wednesday, April 28, Alabama field trip report due

MAY

Tentative dates for Final Exams: Lectures ~Sat May 8 10 - noon. Labs ~ Thursday April 29 9.00 a.m. - noon 

Field trips are obligatory and an essential part of the course. 

1. The "Garden of Art", LSU: Tue., January 26, 1999. 

Aim: azimuths, simple mapping techniques, orientation in the field 

2. Tunica Hills, Mississippi: Sat., February 20, 1999. 

Aim: Mapping simple structures in the field 

Prerequisites: understanding of strike, dip, orientation skills. Labs 

3. Tunica Hills, Mississippi: March 6, 1999 or March 20, 1999, but not both!

Aim: Making a contour map using a theodolite and mapping simple structures in the field

5. Alabama: Thursday April 1 - Sunday April 4 1999. 

Aim: Look at rocks and map geological structures. 

3. ASSIGNMENTS FOR LECTURES, LABS AND FIELDTRIPS Course lecture and lab assignments are due at the beginning of the second class period after they are handed. 

Field trips are accompanied by written assignments due at the beginning of class on the dates specified in the course outline. 

Please hand in your assignments on time. Late assignments will NOT be accepted for grading.

Please, contact your instructors if you foresee any problems in meeting the requirements of this class.

4. EXAMS There are two (2) Midterm exams and one Final exam on both the lectures and laboratory exercises. 

There are no makeup exams. The Final exam is comprehensive. 

Final Grade

Each student's final grade (100%) will be calculated as follows: 

10% from Lecture Midterm exams + 10% from Lab Midterm exams 

20% from lab homework + 

20 % for field assignments. 

15 % for Final Lecture exam and 25% for Final Lab exam 

Letter grades will reflect the following final marks: 

A 90-100, B 75-89.4, C 60-74.4, D 50-59.4, F less than 50.