LABORATORY SCHEDULE FOR GEOLOGY 142 SPRING, 2004

Instructor: Dr. Bruce F. Rueger Office: Mudd 214 Phone: ext. 3575

email: bfrueger@colby.edu

Laboratory Manual: Gastaldo, R.A., C.E. Savrda and R.D. Lewis, 2004, Deciphering Earth History, 3^rd edition, Raleigh, NC: Contemporary Publishing Company of Raleigh, Inc.

25 Mar. SPRING RECESS -- No Laboratories

For the laboratories you should always bring the following:

• Pen; pencil(s) and eraser; colored pencils; lined and unlined paper.
• Other needs for specific lab projects will be announced prior to those labs.
• The field mapping project will potentially occur during the spring mud season. In order to alleviate some of the problems that may occur, you should have waterproof or watertight boots for that exercise. A good clipboard would also be helpful during the mapping exercise.

LABORATORY POLICY FOR GEOLOGY 142

Each of you is enrolled in a particular lab section, and you are expected to attend that lab section. Permission to attend a lab section other than that in which you are enrolled must be obtained in advance. Permission will only be granted for significant reasons: participation in varsity athletic games, or meets (NOT practices), illness on the day of your regular lab, etc. Permission will NOT be granted for trivial reasons, including lack of planning, hangovers, exams or papers due the next day, necessity to catch a ride home for the weekend, skiing, etc. In general you can expect that I will grant permission for temporary lab changes for those reasons that are recognized as justifiable excuses for missing classes altogether. However, any labs to be made up must be done during another regularly scheduled lab period during the same week.

Lab exercises must be turned in at the end of each lab period, unless announced otherwise. Late labs will not be accepted unless permission is granted by the instructor in advance. Labs turned in late without permission obtained in advance will be returned ungraded and no credit will be given. It is in your best interest to attend lab and turn in the assignment for each lab session. Excused lab absences will be accepted only within seven calendar days (holidays and weekends included).

You cannot be urged too strongly to attend all field trips as they are scheduled, because these are by far the most difficult labs to make up. Any field trips you miss and wish to make up must be done on your own time and at your own expense. The one-week time limit for excused absences applies to the field trips as well. To obtain full credit for labs and field trips attendance is mandatory.

Grading on labs will follow the format below:

= 10.0 points Lab well done, neatly presented, correct or accurate.

+ = 8.5 points Lab OK, some mistakes, possibly sloppy presentation.