Dr. Howard Mooers - Geology 5495 - Coast Coral Reef Geology

courses: Geol5495

Spring
2001

Coast Coral Reef Geology

Instructor:
Howard Mooers
213 Heller Hall
726-7239

Notes

Lecture Notes
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Assignments

Acrobat Reader required

Syllabus

Meeting time: Classes meet on T 3-5 PM. Required Florida field trip March 17-26.
Text: Coral Reefs, Peterson Field Guide, and Southeastern and Caribbean Seashores, Peterson Field Guide
Evaluation: Class attendance and participation, final written report, one-two 20 minute lectures, and a 10-day field trip to Florida during spring break.

Requirements:

A fee of $375 to cover the cost of transportation, housing, and boat trips must deposited in the Geology Department account by February 1st, unless other arrangements have been made with the instructor. An additional $125 will be collected by the instructor on, or before, February 20th to cover food and miscellaneous expenses while on the field trip. Any excess funds will be returned at the end of the trip.

Field Trip Information

Site: Keys Marine Laboratory, Long Key, Florida
Phone- emergencies only! (305) 664-9101.

Schedule: (Subject to change)

Leave Duluth approximately 1600 hours (Note that this is the last Friday of finals week. If you have a final scheduled for that afternoon, make appropriate arrangements to finish, and be prepared to leave by 1600 hours).

Arrive Everglades; continue south after a short tour.
Keys Marine Laboratory, and keys environs.
Leave by 6:00 p.m. for Duluth
Arrive Duluth probably early morning (This is a Sunday before 1st day of class)

Class Topics

Geography of the Florida Keys – Islands, morphology, offshore bathymetry.
Fundamentals of coral reefs – definition, distribution, types, basic reef communities.

Coastal processes – coastal forms and classification; scale of landforms; mass, energy, and momentum; wave and currents, sediment budgets

Carbonate chemistry

Modern Reef Zonation and Reef architecture - geology of modern and ancient reefs,

Corals and coral communities.

Sponges

Other reef builders

Fishes and fish communities

Quaternary history of coral reefs.

Readings

Environment of Deposition	Corresponding Text Chapters*
Introduction

*Additional reading materials focusing on physical processes appropriate to each topic will be assigned from books and periodicals.

SPECIAL NEEDS:

If you have a disability that may affect your performance in this class, please inform us at the start of the quarter. Methods, materials, or testing will be adapted as required for equitable participation.

The University of Minnesota is committed to the policy that all of its students shall have equal educational opportunities. The University expressly forbids discrimination on the basis of race, color, gender, national origin, or marital status. If you believe that your instructor has not followed this policy, you are invited to bring this to the attention of the Department Head or the Associate Dean of CSE. Your conference will be kept confidential.