G102/202
Student Outcomes week one:
Introduction and Mass Wasting
After the
lecture and the reading assignment for week
one, students should be able
to:
1) List several different fields of geological
study.
2) Know the difference between physical geology
and historical geology.
3) Understand what the rock cycle is.
4) Know how the formation of the three basic
rock groups differs from each other and what information geologist can learn
from studying rocks
Igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary
5) Understand how rocks and minerals differ from
each other.
6) What is geomorphology?
7) Know how the following shape the surface
features on earth:
Water, wind, gravity, plate
tectonics
Mass
Wasting, Chapter 11
8. List and describe the controls and triggers
of mass wasting.
9. Define the term Aangle of repose@ and discuss its
importance in mass wasting.
10.
What is meant by the coefficient of friction for a material and understand what
factors can change that factor.
11. What is meant by dynamic equilibrium?
12. Differentiate between a fall, slide, and
flow.
13. Differentiate between each of the following
forms of mass movement and recognize where each is likely to occur:
a. solifluction
e. slump
b. mudflow f. rock/debris slide
c. earthflow
g. avalanche (rock or
snow)
d. creep h. rock glacier
14. Define lahar. List
the areas where they occur and discuss the factors that can trigger them
15. Describe the influence of air and water as it
interacts with moving avalanche debris.
16. Understand the mechanism of soil creep and
cite a variety of observable phenomena that indicate slow downhill movement.
17. Define the following terms that relate to
rock falls:
a. frost wedging
b. talus
slopes and cones
18. Understand how the following contributes to
the formation of unstable slopes:
a. load e. liquefaction of
clays
b. reduction of rock
strength f. removal of slope toe
c. dip of bedrock g. shale
d. vegetation
19. Describe the properties of permafrost and
discuss its influence on mass wasting.
Define: lobate, active layer, solifluction
20. With regards to mass wasting, what is meant
by the term complex movement?
21. Understand what mass wasting mechanisms
influence the pacific NW and what factors contribute to the process.
22. What contribution does water make to the
process of mass wasting?
23. Know that gravity is the driving force of
mass wasting.
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25. Understand each of the following forces with
regards to what causes them and what role they play in either resisting mass
wasting or contributing to it.
Frictional force
Normal force
Shear force
26. What are the four factors that contribute to
how a mass wasting event is named (i.e. is it a mud flow, a slump, a rock
fall…etc).
27. What mass wasting event occurred in Kelso
28. Be able to discuss
methods of remediation for mass wasting.
29. Be able to
recognize/explain different features that indicate mass wasting is occurring in
an area.
30. Read the link to the article Puget Sound Mass
Wasting on the class web page and be able to answer questions regarding this
article. Be able to discuss the
implications on an ever increasing population and decreasing land availability
for housing development and whose responsibility it is for preventing such
tragedies.
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