Earth Sciences 2 - Earth Catastrophes

General Education Requirements Satisfied: (SI)

Class Information

Professor:

Thorne Lay, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, E&MS C382, 459-3164
Office Hours: Room C382 Earth & Marine Sciences Bldg., MWF 1:00 pm-2:00 pm
tlay@ucsc.edu

Lectures:

MWF 11:00-12:10, Earth and Marine Sciences B206
Powerpoints from lectures (when updataed to this year) are at
http://es.ucsc.edu/~thorne/EART2_Lectures/lecture.htm

No Discussion Sections: Meet with Professor Lay at his office hours

Required Text:

EART 2, excerpted from Patrick L. Abbott. Natural Disasters, Eigth Edition (you can get by with used Sixth/Seventh/Eigth used Editions)
You do not need to buy a reader.

World Wide Web Addresses:

Main Web Site with Information and Lecture Notes: http://es.ucsc.edu/~thorne/EART2

Powerpoint Presentations from Class Lectures: http://es.ucsc.edu/~thorne/EART2_Lectures

Course Evaluation:

75%: 3 in-class 1-hour exams, each covering 1/3 of the course material and each worth 25% or the grade (no Final). 25% Cumulative points on homeworks. Grades will be assigned relative to the Class mean/median after rescaling to combine scores from exams and homework. The central value will be at the breakover from C+ to B- There will be two homeworks; the first handed out in class around lecture 8 and the second around lecture 15

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