Course Summary: Formation, dynamics, and regimen of glaciers. Erosional and depositional processes and landforms. Glaciation of North America with emphasis on stratigraphy, soils, climates, and physical changes resulting from glacial processes and environments. Field investigations and a student research project required.
Prerequisites: G415 or consent of instructor.
Semester(s) Offered: Not Currently Offered
GEOL-G 527 Geological Oceanography
Credit Hours: 3
Course Summary: Geological features and processes operating in the oceans; continental shelf, slope and ocean-basin geomorphology, sedimentology, structure, and composition; origin and geologic history of seawater and ocean basins; tools applied to marine geological studies.
Prerequisites: graduate standing, G334, or consent of instructor
Semester(s) Offered: Not Currently Offered
GEOL-G 535 Quaternary Geology
Credit Hours: 3
Course Summary: Characteristics, distribution, and origin of Pleistocene and recent deposits, stratigraphy and chronology; formation of associated landforms, landscapes, paleosols, and soils; Quaternary environments and paleoclimatic interpretation.
Prerequisites: G415 or consent of instructor.
Semester(s) Offered: Fall(E)
Instructors: Kathy Licht
GEOL-G 545 Applied Analytical Techniques in Geology
Credit Hours: 3
Course Summary: Principles of advanced analytical techniques, including X-ray analysis, electron beam imaging and analysis, and mass spectrometry, with applications in geosciences. Lectures on theory followed by laboratory exercises. Students will complete individual or collaborative research projects.
Prerequisites: G221, CHEM C105-C106, and consent of instructor.
Semester(s) Offered: Not Currently Offered
GEOL-G 546 Planetary Remote Sensing
Credit Hours: 3
Course Summary: Application of multi-spectral data for exploration and mapping of planetary surfaces.
Prerequisites: Previous course work in remote sensing, or consent of instructor.
Semester(s) Offered: Spring
Instructors: Lin Li
GEOL-G 550 Surface-Water Hydrology
Credit Hours: 3
Course Summary: In-depth analysis of surface water components of hydrologic cycle: hydrometeorology, evaporation/transpiration, rainfall-runoff relationships, open-channel flow, flood hydrology, and statistical and probabilistic methods in hydrology.
Prerequisites: G430 or G451.
Semester(s) Offered: Not Currently Offered
GEOL-G 551 Advanced Hydrogeology
Credit Hours: 3
Course Summary: P: G430 or G451. Advanced treatment of concepts fundamental to subsurface hydrologic processes. Applications to groundwater resource development and environmental protection such as aquifer mechanics and well hydraulics, heterogeneity and anisotropy, ground water and surface water interactions, unsaturated flow, and tracer and contaminant transport.
Semester(s) Offered: Not Currently Offered
GEOL-G 561 Paleoecology
Credit Hours: 3
Semester(s) Offered: Not Currently Offered
GEOL-G 583 Isotope Geochemistry
Credit Hours: 3
Course Summary: Introduction to the theory and application of radiogenic and stable isotopes to a variety of subdisciplines in the earth sciences. Topics include: geochronology, tracers, mass balance and mixing, hydrology and environmental applications, water-rock interaction, and biogeochemical cycles.
Prerequisites: G406 or consent of instructor.
Semester(s) Offered: Spring
Instructors: William P Gilhooly III
GEOL-G 585 Environmental Geochemistry
Credit Hours: 3
Course Summary: Aquatic and environmental geochemistry, including freshwater and marine systems, natural and human-induced changes to geochemical systems, and the geochemical record of paleoceanographic and paleoclimatic variations.
Prerequisites: G406 or consent of instructor.
Semester(s) Offered: Not Currently Offered
GEOL-G 595 Data Analysis Techniques in Geoscience
Credit Hours: 3
Course Summary: Application of statistical and numerical analysis techniques to geoscience data, including sampling methods, confidence intervals, least squares methods, correlation, time series analysis, and multivariate techniques. Emphasis on using a computer to solve geoscience problems.
Prerequisites: STAT 30100 and CSCI N207, or equivalent.
Semester(s) Offered: Fall(E)
GEOL-G 596 Topics in Applied Environmental Geology
Credit Hours: 3
Course Summary: Application of geologic principles to common environmental problems. Topics covered include waste site assessment, flood hazard analysis and mitigation, slope stability, and hydrogeology. Application of principles to problems pertaining to urban planning, earthquake-resistant design, and waste site/landfill development.
Prerequisites: consent of instructor
Semester(s) Offered: Not Currently Offered
GEOL-G 621 Modeling Hydrological Systems
Credit Hours: 3
Course Summary: Introduction to groundwater flow and solute transport modeling. Includes development of equations describing ground water flow and applied ground water/contaminant transport modeling, using a variety of current software packages.
Prerequisites: G430 or G451 and consent of instructor
Semester(s) Offered: Not Currently Offered
GEOL-G 635 Soil Geomorphology
Credit Hours: 3
Course Summary: Application of geomorphic principles in evaluation of weathering and soil formation; systems analysis of soil-landscape models; paleogeomorphology and paleopedology. Lectures and discussion; field and laboratory problems.
Prerequisites: G415
Semester(s) Offered: Not Currently Offered
GEOL-G 640 Fluvial Geomorphology
Credit Hours: 3
Course Summary: Survey of fluvial processes including sediment transport, bed and bank erosion, and river metamorphosis. Examination of the controls on channel form. Analysis of landform genesis with an emphasis on feature sedimentology and stratigraphy. Application of fluvial geomorphic principles to land management and restoration of riparian ecosystems.
Prerequisites: G415 or consent of instructor
Semester(s) Offered: Not Currently Offered
GEOL-G 645 Carbonate Sedimentology
Credit Hours: 3
Course Summary: Course focuses on origin and generation of carbonate grains, description of modern carbonate depositional environments, interpretation of ancient limestone and dolomite sequences, and carbonate diagenesis.
Prerequisites: G334 or consent of instructor
Semester(s) Offered: Not Currently Offered
GEOL-G 690 Advanced Geology Seminar: Feeding the City
Credit Hours: 3
Course Summary: Feeding the city explores concepts in sustainability science through close examination of our local and national food systems. Approaches we will employ include greenhouse gas and nutrient budgeting, life cycle assessment, and systems analysis. We will pay close attention to the environmental impacts of food production, distribution, and consumption at the national, regional and local scales focusing on the united states, the Midwest, and Indianapolis, respectively. The course will include interdisciplinary explorations, including historical, social and scientific. There will be an emphasis on learning about the local food system through a combination of student led discussions, field trips, and group projects. There will be opportunities to apply for a related summer internship.
Course Summary: This class will investigate chemical reactions occurring in natural waters as approached using geochemical reaction modeling where thermodynamic, kinetic, biological, and hydrologic descriptions of element mobility can be calculated. We will learn to use the Geochemists's Workbench series of programs to do this.
Prerequisites: consent of instructor
Semester(s) Offered: Spring(O)
Instructors: Gregory K Druschel
GEOL-G 690 Advanced Geology Seminar
Credit Hours: credit arranged
Course Summary: Readings and discussion of selected topics. May be repeated, provided different topics are studied.
Course Summary: Biological and geochemical processes controlling the cycling of elements in soils and freshwater sediments with emphasis on the cycles of carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorous.