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J. Steven Kite
Department of Geology and Geography
222/223 White Hall
West Virginia University 293-5603,
ext. 4330
Morgantown, WV 26506-6300
Kite@WVUGEO.WVNET.EDU
or JKITE@WVU.EDU
http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/teaching.htm
Regular Office Hours: M 10:30-11:45, 3:30-5:00 W 3:30-5:00
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Schedule, version 1.2
Class is scheduled to meet MWF 1:30-3:20
p.m., but we will not normally meet on fridays except for field trips or
tests. We do meet on Friday for the first three weeks of the semester.
Revised
6 December 1999
| Date | Topic | Readings | Old Readings |
| 23 August | Information ebbs and flows! Local Quaternary History. | ||
| 25 August | Final (Ha!) Schedule Handout, Review Glaciers | Ritter & others, 1995 Ch. 9 | |
| 27 August | Local Field Trip: Cheat Canyon,
Coopers Rock: Surficial Mapping,
Rock City, Boulder Streams |
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| 30 August | Review Glaciers | Ritter & others, 1995 Ch. 10; move Edwards, 1986 here in in 2001 | |
| 1 Sept | Review Periglacial Geomorphology | Ritter & others, 1995 Ch. 11 | |
| 3 Sept | "Basics Test" on Glacial and Periglacial Geomorphology | ||
| 6 Sept | Labor Day, No Class. | ||
| 8 Sept | Review Basics Test; Schedule
v.2 Discusssion, Annotated Bibliography Discussion,
Sort Readings in 201 & 223 Introduction to Deposits in Mon River Valley |
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| 10 Sept | Local Field Trip: Mon River Valley: Glacial Lake Monongahela, Terraces | Flint, 1971, p. 232-237; Gillespie and Clendening, 1968; Jacobsen and others, 1988; Behling and Kite, 1988; Morgan, 1994 (excerpts); White, 1896; Springer and others, 1997. | |
| 13 Sept | Discussion of Local Trip; Internet Exercise | Tom Lowell's website at the University of Cincinnati: http://tvl1.geo.uc.edu/ice/glacier.html | |
| 15 Sept | Glacial Depositional Systems | Rose and Menzies, 1996; Kemmis 1996; Edwards, 1986 (move to basics in 2001) | Eyles, 1983, ch 1 |
| 20 Sept | Ice-Contact Stratified Drift | Menzies, 1995; Maizels, 1995; Lawson, 1995 | |
| 22 Sept | Isostatic Depression & Uplift
Glaciolacustrine depsoits |
Gray 1996; Waitt, 1994 (excerpt); Ashley, 1995 | Woodworth-Lynsa, 1996, Ashley, 1989; Smith & Ashley, 1985, Waitt 1985 |
| 27 Sept - 1 Oct | Kite at Paleoflood Conference in Arizona, No Class | ||
| 4 Oct | Glacial History of the Erie Lobe | Fullerton, 1986; Mickelson, et al. 1983; Wright, 1987 | |
| 6 Oct | Teays River-Ohio River History | Goldthwait 1991; Bonnett and others 1991; Teller 1987; Preston, 1950 (excerpt); 1977; Watson, 1989 | |
| 8-10 Oct | Southwestern WV Field Trip: (3 days) Early Pleistocene Teays River Systems; Glacial Lake Tight, Kanawha & Ohio River Terraces (includes 1999 Southeastern Friends of the Pleistocene Trip, with required registration fee) | Cremeens, 1997, 1999
Handouts from Wilmouth, 1966 |
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| 11 Oct | Glacial Runoff Hydrology; Loess | Derbyshire and Owen, 1996 | |
| 13 Oct | Outwash Deposystems | Mial, 1982 | |
| 18 Oct | Student PowerPoint Presentations:
Sheldon Murphy: : Paleocurrent Study of the Price Formation |
One Student Assigned reading | |
| 22 Oct | Take-Home Mid-Term Due | Click here for comments on 1999 mid-term | |
| 25 - 29 Oct | Kite at GSA in Colorado, No Class | ||
| 1 Nov | Periglacial Geomorphology | Clark and Ciolkosz, 1988; Gardner and others 1991; Gray and Gardner 1977; Gray and others, 1979; Hoover and Ciolkosz, 1988; Kochel 1986; Pomeroy 1983 | |
| 3 Nov | Appalachian Quaternary Climates | Maxwell and Davis 1972; Delcourt
and Delcourt, 1986; Watts, 1983;
add next time: Kneller, M. and D. Peteet, 1993, Late-Quaternary climate in the Ridge and Valley of Virginia, U.S.A.: changes in vegetation and depositional environment: Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 12, p. 613-628. |
Larabee 1986 |
| 7 Nov | 1 Day Field Trip Western Pennsylvania, Northern WV Panhandle: Quaternary Ice Margins, Paleofloods, Outwash | Preston, 1950 (excerpt); 1977; Watson, 1989) | |
| 8 Nov | Hydrogeology of Glacial landscapes | Mickelson, 1993 | |
| 9 Nov | High-Quality Draft of 500 Word Paper Due by 3:00 p.m | ||
| 10 Nov | Student Presentations | Student Assigned Readings | |
| 14 Nov | 1 Day Field Trip: Dolly Sods-Blackwater Canyon Periglacial Features, Cheat Narrows Flood Depsoits | See 1 November | |
| 15 Nov | Student Presentations | Metz, McCoy, Cook | |
| 17 Nov | Student Presentations | Kwak, Cook, Schmidt, Fordik | |
| 22 Nov | Revision of 500 Word Paper Due by 4:30 p.m. | ||
| 20-29 Nov | Thanksgiving Recess | ||
| 30 Nov | Reviewed Exam, Catch up from Thanksgiving | None | |
| 1 Dec | Quaternary Dating Methods | Brigham-Grette, 1996; Stuckenrath, 1977; Broecker, W. S., 1992, Terasmae, J., 1984; Linick and others, 1989 | |
| 6 Dec | Proxy Climate Records; Surficial Geology Mapping Exercise due (area of your choice) | CLIMAP, 1976; Hays and others, 1976; Winograd and others, 1992; Raynaud and others, 1993 | Heinrich, 1988 |
| 8 Dec | Causes of Ice Ages | Adams & others, 1999; Broecker & others, 1985;
Broecker & Denton, 1990; Broecker, 1999 |
Barnola, & others 1999 (WEBSITE) |
| 10 Dec | (Friday) Final Exam in class | ||
| 15 Dec | Wednesday Deadline for all Work in this class, including Final Revision of 500 Word Paper |
"Stuff" we did not get to cover in 1999
| Paleosols | Boardman, 1996 |
| Glaciomarine Systems | Powell & Domack 1995; Elverhoi, and Henrich, 1996 (focus only on 5.3 & 5.4) |
| Great Lakes Geological History | Larsen 1987 |
| Glaciers I | Modern: Ch 3, Swithenbank |
| Glaciers II | Modern: Ch 4 & 5 |
| Glacial Processes I | Modern: Ch 7, 8 & 9 |
| Glacial Processes II | Past: Ch 2 & 3 |