GLY 480/592 Coastal Ocean Methods
Spring 2009
Leonard Portion
| Date | Topic |
| January 9th | Introduction, record keeping, map interpretation |
| January 16th | Coastal morphology: Readings: 1) Waves, Tides and Shallow Water Processes, Open University: Chapter 5 Sec. 5.1, Sec. 5.3, Sec. 5.4, 2) Coasts, Davis (1996) Chapter 7, p. 157-185., 3) Beach Processes and Sedimentation, Komar (1998) Chapter 7, p. 270-276. |
| January 23rd | Sediment characterization. Readings: Petrology of Sedimentary Rocks, Folk (1980) p. 1-7 and 31-33 and U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OPEN-FILE REPORT 00-358 (2000) ONLINE: http://pubs.usgs.gov/openfile/of00-358/ |
| January 30th | Water quality and fluid dynamics: Readings: Sediment movement by fluid flow, in Origin of Sedimentary Rocks, Blatt/Middleton/Murray, Chapter 4, p. 90-96 |
| February 6th | Coastal wetlands: Readings 1) Coasts, Davis (1996) Chapter 6, p. 151-156, 2) Saltmarshes, Allen and Pye (1992) Chapter 1 |
| February 13th | TBA |
| February 20th | Data analysis and interpretation |
| February 27th | Mid-term Exam |