Schedule

Reading assignments: For each reading assignment, send an email to Chelsea Scott (cpscott1@asu.edu) by 5 pm the day before they are listed in the schedule with the following:

1. A one paragraph summary of the reading.

2. 4 questions that you have about the reading

3. For papers (i.e., not textbook readings), what do you anticipate is the lasting impact of this paper? Why will people remember and cite this paper 10 years after it was written? Explain in one sentence.


Thursday August 20: Cancel class


Tuesday August 25: Introduction, Read McCalpin pgs. 29-49 and 105-118

Thursday August 27: Hazard Lecture by Steve Thompson, Read Petersen et al. (2011)

Homework Assignment Due September 3: Exercise on landforms in strike-slip and reverse faulting environments


Tuesday September 1: Lecture on Reverse Faults, Read McCalpin Chapter 5

Thursday September 3: Introduction to QGIS (Install before class). QGIS tutorial videos

Post 2019 Ridgecrest Earthquake topography available from OpenTopography

Homework Assignment Due September 9: Reverse Faulting mapping from lidar, Pacific Northwest

Airborne lidar dataset is available from the Washington Department of Natural Resources lidar portal


Tuesday September 8: Lecture on strike-slip faulting, Read McCalpin Chapter 6

Thursday September 10: Discuss reverse mapping assignment

Homework Assignment Due September 16: Strike-slip Faulting from aerial photos, Eastern California: Imagery Assignment Mapping Units

Tuesday September 15: Lecture on normal faulting, Read McCalpin Chapter 3

Thursday September 17: Discuss strike-slip mapping assignment

lidar dataset, Assignment, Ramelli et al 1999, Rood et al 2011,

Homework Assignment Due September 23: Normal Faulting from lidar, Nevada


Tuesday September 22: Discuss main mapping project. Hand-out

Thursday September 24: Discuss normal faulting assignment and mapping conventions


Tuesday September 29: Pre-Ridgecrest mapping paper by Jobe et al. (2020) Guests: Jessica Thompson Jobe & Belle Philibosian

Thursday October 1: Loose ends, office hour to answer questions about project (attendance is mandatory)


Tuesday October 6: office hour to answer questions about project (attendance is mandatory)

Thursday October 8: Project check-in 1: Lorry, Jackie, Rachel, Jenna, Sean


Tuesday October 13: Discuss Analecta

Thursday October 15: Project check-in 2: Daniel, Alana, John, Joe, CJ


Tuesday October 20: Career discussion: Steve & Time, Lecture

Thursday October 22: Project check-in 3: Lorry, Jackie, Rachel, Jenna, Sean


Tuesday October 27: Discuss Salisbury et al (2015)

Thursday October 29: Project check-in 4: Daniel, Alana, John, Joe, CJ


Monday November 2: Write-up on the first mapping assignment due

Tuesday November 3:Office hours to discuss second mapping project

Thursday November 5: Project check-in 1 discussing dataset(s) and 1-2 hrs of geomorphic/ landscape morphology mapping: Daniel, Jackie, John, Joe, CJ


Tuesday November 10: Discuss paper

Thursday November 12: Project check-in 2: Lorry, Alana, Rachel, Jenna, Sean


Tuesday November 17: Career discussion: Chris and Rich

Thursday November 19: Project check-in 3: Daniel, Jackie, John, Joe, CJ


Tuesday November 24: Project check-in 4: Lorry, Alana, Rachel, Jenna, Sean

Thursday November 26: Thanksgiving: Cancel class


Tuesday December 1: Final presentations Presentation hand-out

Thursday December 3: Final presentations

Friday December 4: Second Mapping reports due (End of semester at ASU)


GLG494/598: Mapping tectonic faults from geomorphology