KARST HYDROGEOLOGY
Fall Semester 2008 -– 11:00-12:30 TuTh --
Dr. Van Brahana and Dr. John Dixon
Preliminary Class
Schedule--Subject to Revision
Class
Reading
Assignments Work
No.
Date Topics
OR P FW Due
1 8/26 Introduction,
logistics, course requirements, relevance, frontiers 1 1 1
2 8/26
Basic principles—dissolution,
water/rock interaction; geochem - 6 3
3 9/02 Basic principles—flow dynamics and
physics; hydrology - 4 5 PS-1
4 9/04 Basic tools of karst science 2 14 -
FT1 9/06 Field Trip—Mantled karst of the
5 9/09 Underlying role of geology in karst 1 2,3,8 2 FT-2
6
9/11 Videos—Karst of
northern
7
9/16 Karst landscapes—Form
and process 3 2 1,9 PS-3
8
9/18 Karst landscapes—Form and
process (continued) 3 2 1,9
9
9/23 Climate records in
karst 4 - 10 PS-4
10
9/25 Geochemical considerations;
water quality; contamination 5,10 8
11 9/30 Biology
of karst
5 - -
12 10/02 Time in karst 6 13 - PS-5
13 10/07 EXAM #1
14 10/09 Analysis of karst drainage systems 4 6
15 10/14 Hydrograph analysis; hydrologic budgets;
normalized base flow 7 - 6 PS-6
16 10-16 Surface geophysics and engineering
applications in karst 8 15 11,12
FT2 10/17-18 Field
Trip— Karst of SW Ozarks and Karst in an Urban
17 10/21 Ground-water tracing 9 - -
18 10/23 Regolith
and mantled karst; soils; storage; epikarst 10 - - FT-7
19
10/28 Speleogenesis in varied
settings—
20 10/30
Speleogenesis in varied settings—
21 11/04 Speleogenesis in varied settings—Hypogene
settings 11 7,8 7
22 11/06 Speleogenesis
in varied settings—Worldwide 11 7,9 7
FT3 11/15 Field
Trip—Karst reconnaissance and aquifer testing of WREC wetlands
23 11/11 EXAM #2
24 11/13 Modeling karst—Conceptual models; numerical
models 12 - - FT-9
25 11/18 Class
presentations RP-10
26 11/20 Class
presentations (continued)
27 11/25 Class presentations (continued)
11/27 Thanksgiving
Holiday
28 12/02 Class presentations (continued)
29 12/04 Class
presentations (continued)
30 12/09 Summary, overview, consilience, course
wrap-up PS-11
31 12/17 FINAL EXAM (7:30-9:30 am, Wednesday,
December 17)
EXAMS AND GRADES
There are 2 scheduled hour exams. Unexcused absences during an exam result in a
0 for that test. Each hour exam is 1500
points, for a total of 3000 points. You
will also be graded on 3 field trip reports (1000 points total), 7 problem sets
(1500 points total), a field project paper detailing your personal field work
and interpretation on a mutually agreed-upon field problem (1500 points), an
oral presentation of the field project (1000 points), class participation (500
points), and a comprehensive final exam (1500 points). Grade assignment will be as follows:
A
– 90 to 100 %
B
– 80 to 89.9 %
C
– 70 to 79.9 %
D
– 60 to 69.9%
F
– less than 60%
All
make-up exams (excused only) will be given on Dead Day, at the end of the
semester—No Exceptions.
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CONTACTS
AND REFERENCES Professor
J. V. Brahana: 575-2570
Department of Geosciences 575-5808 Professor John 114
Ozark Hall 575-3355 102B Ozark Hall Office
Hours: 1:00—2:00 pm, Tuesday 10:30—11:30am,
Wednesday 3:30 pm—4:30 pm, Thursday email: Textbooks: Ford and Williams, 2007, Karst
Hydrogeology and Geomorphology, John Wiley and Sons; Palmer, 2007, Cave Geology, Cave Books. |
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READING ASSIGNMENTS AND HOMEWORK Reading assignments should be completed
before the start of the class shown on the preliminary class schedule
(previous page-in lavender bold). OR
refers to outside references, most of which will be provided as copies in
class, numbered as shown. P refers to
the chapter in Palmer, 2007, Cave Geology.
FW refers to the chapter in Ford and Williams, 2007, Karst
Hydrogeology and Geomorphology. Homework assignments (previous page—in
green bold italic—are due at the start of class on the date shown on the
preliminary class schedule. Late work
will be penalized at a rate of 25% per day or part thereof that the work is
late. |