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Instructors: |
Peter Schiffman, Hubert Staudigel, and Robert Zierenberg |
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Texts: |
"Volcanoes" by Francis and Oppenheimer (2003) (F); "Kilauea Volcano" by
Richard Hazlett (H) |
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Grading: |
GEL 138 grade is based on 60% final and 40% exercises; GEL 198 grade is
based on quality of individual field notebooks as well as group
project (all write-ups for both classes are due 9/17 at 5 PM) |
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Date
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Lecture topic (generally 8:30 ‑ 10:00) and lecturer, or other
morning activity; chapter reading in Francis and Oppenheimer
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| 9/6 |
Introduction to Hawaiian volcanism and Kilauea: PS (1‑2)
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| 9/7 |
Magma genesis; chemistry and physics of volcanoes: RZ (3,5) |
| 9/8 |
Classification of eruptions; pyroclastic eruptions: HS (4,6,16)
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| 9/9 |
(Classroom time to draft Keanakako'i sections); hydrovolcanic
eruptions:PS (8‑12) |
| 9/10 |
(Classroom time to draft Steaming Bluff maps) |
| 9/11 |
Early AM field excursion |
| 9/12 |
Day off: trip to the beach at Punalu’u |
| 9/13 |
Lava flows and littoral cones RZ (7,13) |
| 9/14 |
(Classroom time
to prepare histograms of Nanawale tephras); Mauna Loa PS |
| 9/15 |
Volcanic gases
and environmental geochemistry RZ |
| 9/16 |
Other hazards: earthquakes,
landslides and tsunamis in Hawaii (HS) |
| 9/17 |
Office Morning: finish projects and study for final |
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Tentative afternoon excursion schedule
(generally 10:30-5:00+) and reading in Hazlett |
| 9/6 |
Kilauea Caldera; Exercise (5%): contouring 1924 ejecta blocks (pp. 32-33, 59-83)
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| 9/7 |
Thurston Lava Tube and Kilauea‑Iki (pp. 89-93) |
| 9/8 |
Exercise (10%): measured stratigraphic section of Keanakako'i Ash (pp. 83-88) |
| 9/9 |
Exercise (5%): mapping temperatures at Steaming Bluffs (pp.
65-68) |
| 9/10 |
East Rift Zone, Napau crater excursion (pp. 95-114) |
| 9/11 |
Early AM Exercise: mapping active flows (5%); PM: time to work
on exercises |
| 9/12 |
Day off: trip to the beach at Punalu’u |
| 9/13 |
Exercise (10%): tephra granulometry at Nanawale littoral cones
(pp. 137-152) |
| 9/14 |
Mauna Loa; Exercise: mapping Mauna Loa lava flows off air photos
(5%) |
| 9/15 |
Ka’u Desert and South Point: Footprints area, Pu’u
Mahana tuff cone , Green Sand Beach (pp. 51-58) |
| 9/16 |
Revisiting active lava flows |
| 9/17 |
Final examination (60%; open notes, unopen book; includes field
excursions and exercises) |
