Lecture	Dates	Chapter: Pages	Topic
1	Sept. 8	1: 3-49	Introduction to the earth
2	Sept. 10	8: 190-213	Geological time and the age of the earth.
3/4	Sept. 15/17	4:74-80	Continental drift - birth of the plate tectonics theory
5/6	Sept. 22/24	4: 80-89	Plate tectonics - sea-floor spreading
7	Sept. 29	4: 89-107	Plate tectonics - a global setting for earthquakes and volcanoes
8	Oct 1	-	Video- The Living Planet (nicely summarizes everything we have covered )
9	Oct. 6	3: 59-69	Introduction to Earthquakes
	Oct. 8		FIRST ONE HOUR EXAM
	Oct. 13		UMASS MONDAY - COLUMBUS DAY
10	Oct. 15	3: 59-69	Faults and earthquakes
11	Oct. 20	3: 70-74	Seismic waves
12	Oct. 22	3: 74-86	Earthquake magnitude
13	Oct. 27	3: 87-95	Tsunamis
14	Oct. 29	4: 96-119; 5: 128-150	Earthquake histories and damage caused by earthquakes
15	Nov. 3	4: 119-125	Predicting earthquakes
16	Nov. 5	6: 151-162	Introduction to volcanoes
	Nov. 10		SECOND ONE HOUR EXAM
17	Nov. 12	6: 162-165	Lava Flows
18	Nov. 17	6: 162-165: 7: 180-182	Hawaiian and Icelandic volcanoes
19	Nov. 19	6: 164-167; 7:183-189	Explosive eruptions
20	Nov. 24	6: 168-179; 7: 192-202	Pyroclastic flows - what happened at Pompei
	Nov. 26		THANKSGIVING VACATION
21	Dec. 1	7: 183-189	Mount St Helens
22	Dec. 3	6: 171-179-	Cataclysmic eruptions - the really big ones!
23	Dec. 8	-	Monitoring and forecasting eruptions
24	Dec. 10	7: 206-206	Video - In the Path of the Killer Volcano (Pinatubo, Phillipines)
	To be scheduled		FINAL EXAM