Student Learning Outcomes

• Students will be able to identify and describe dominant features, geological structures, and processes from regions visited on field trips.
• Students will be able to apply primary geological principles.
• Students will be able to evaluate and classify major rock types.
• Students will be able to evaluate and classify common minerals.
• Student will be able to produce a rudimentary geologic map through individual or team field work: should include use of a Jacob Staff to measure and describe lithologies in a a stratigraphic section, use Brunton to measure several dips and strikes on each mapping unit, correct identification of a fault, approximate placement of unit contacts.
• Students will be able to interpret Southern California geological features using photographic essays.
• Students will be able to compare and contrast geological features between selected Southern California geological provinces.