Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces,
I would still plant my apple tree.- Martin Luther
Practical Scanning Electron Microscopy + Lab
How to use a field
emission scanning electron microscope with energy dispersive
spectrometer
(photo: Fred and Martha Hafer Scanning Electron
Microscope Lab at Kutztown University)
Mineralogy + Lab
How to identify
minerals and the chemistry of how minerals form
(photo: Sterling Hill zinc
mine)
Petrology and Geochemistry + Lab
(formerly Igneous and
Metamorphic Petrology)
Studying the chemical
processes that form, modify, and destroy rocks, including how
magmas form/crystallize, how pressure/temperature recrystallize
rocks, and how water chemically reacts with rocks.
(photo: Adirondack Mnts.)
Economic Geology + Lab
How mineral deposits that we mine form
within the Earth and how we explore for them
(photo: underground in the Balmat zinc mine)
Geology of National Parks
The stories of the rocks
that you walk on when you go on vacation
(photo: Canyon de Chelly, AZ)
Senior Seminar in Geology
Synthesis of all of the
geology courses in the program through discussions of papers
published in the professional scientific journals, also includes
group research project
(photo: measuring pH, etc. in well)
Optical Mineralogy + Lab
Using microscopes to study
mineralogy and applying a little mineral chemistry to deduce
geological processes
(photo: Nyco wollastonite mine)
Structural Geology + Lab
Studying how stress deforms rock to form
folds and faults, how that applies to engineering, and
plate tectonic theory
(photo: measuring RQD in drill core at drill rig testing
rock strength)
(taught by
Dr. Sarah
Tindall as of
2003)
Field Geology
Standard field procedures
for geologists, including geologic mapping, rock/soil/water
sampling, geophysical methods, etc.
(photo: sketching outcrops
with
the art education students)
( now taught by Dr. Sarah Tindall )
Environmental Geology + Lab
Geology related to
environmental science with an emphasis on practical experience
in the field
(photo: soil sampling near Palmerton, PA)
(taught by Dr.
Jacob Sewall as of 2009)
Hydrogeology + Lab
Geology related to
environmental science with an emphasis on practical experience
in the field
(photo: bailing from monitoring well)
(taught by Dr.
Laura Sherrod as of 2010)
Geophysics + Lab
How we analyze the earth's
magnetism, gravity, electrical properties, and seismic
properties to find hidden things like water, oil, and minerals,
as well as understand processes otherwise invisible to us
(photo: measuring magnetic
field in Pennsylvania iron mining district)
(taught by Dr.
Laura Sherrod as of 2010)
Physical Geology + Lab
Survey of the geological sciences for science
majors.
(photo:
viewing kiln at cement plant)
(taught
by Dr. Laura
Sherrod as of 2009)
Intro to Geology + Lab
Survey of the geological
sciences for science and non-science majors, respectively
(taught by Dr.
Sarah Tindall as of
2009)
