Written Reports (Assignment 1 and Assignment 2)

* These two Assignments are to be submitted electronically (via Turnitin). Students must keep a copy of their reports. 

Late submission: No extensions will be granted. There will be a deduction of 5% of the total available marks made from the total awarded mark for each 24 hour period or part thereof that the submission is late (for example, 25 hours late in submission – 10% penalty). This penalty does not apply for cases in which an application for disruption of studies is made and approved.

Presentation of written reports

The Outline: 

1. Introduction. Define terms and outline your approach to the topic. ​​
2. Discussion. This section is for explanation and discussion of the topic. It may help to write down a list of major points that will become your paragraphs, so that you can arrange your notes under each point.
3.  Conclusion. This is not a reiteration of the discussion, but a summary statement that rounds off the report. 

The Dangers of Plagiarism and how to avoid it 

The integrity of learning and scholarship depends on a code of conduct governing good practice and acceptable academic behaviour. One of the most important elements of good practice involves acknowledging carefully the people whose ideas we have used, borrowed, or developed. All students and scholars are bound by these rules because all scholarly work depends in one way or another on the work of others.

Therefore, there is nothing wrong in using the work of others as a basis for your own work, nor is it evidence of inadequacy on your part, provided you do not attempt to pass off someone else's work as your own.

To maintain good academic practice, so that you may be given credit for your own efforts, and so that your own contribution can be properly appreciated and evaluated, you should acknowledge your sources and you should always:

1. State clearly in the appropriate form where you found the material on which you have based your work.
2. Acknowledge the people whose concepts, experiments, or results you have extracted, developed, or summarised, even if you put these ideas into your own words.
3. Avoid excessive copying of passages by another author, even where the source is acknowledged. Find another form of words to show that you have thought about the material and understood it, but remember to state clearly where you found the ideas.

If you take and use the work of another person without clearly stating or acknowledging your source, you are falsely claiming that material as your own work and committing an act of PLAGIARISM. This is a very serious violation of good practice and an offence for which you will be penalised.

Field reports, maps and exercises

Maps and exercises to be handed in the field  - no later than midnight December 8, 2016. 

Field reports to be submitted electronically in the field using USB drive - no later than midnight December 8, 2016. 

Late submission: No extensions will be granted. Students who have not submitted the task prior to the deadline will be awarded a mark of 0 for the task, except for cases in which an application for disruption of studies is made and approved.

Quizzes

Two compulsory quizzes will be done online on iLearn before the trip  - no later than midnight December 2, 2016.

Late submission: No extensions will be granted. Students who have not submitted the task prior to the deadline will be awarded a mark of 0 for the task, except for cases in which an application for disruption of studies is made and approved.

Desired Standards:

GEOS811 is a field-based unit with a strong emphasis on the observation and delineation of rock units using a range of different mapping techniques. The concepts of depositional environments, rock succession, rock deformation and geological histories will be enhanced during small-group tutorials. This mapping will reveal past environments and show how these environments changed through time. This will involve the study of both natural outcrops and coloured air photographs of the region. An initial report will include research on conglomerate depositional environment and clast provenance. A final report will include a discussion of the tectonic evolution of the area covered by the field mapping (placing the Lake Keepit area into a regional plate tectonic context), and will be posted on iLearn after the field camp.

Set Textbook and Background Reading

Text books:

1. “Structural Analysis and Synthesis A Laboratory Course in Structural Geology” by  Stephen M. Rowland, Ernest M. Duebendorfer, Ilsa M. Schiefelbein, 3rd Edition, 2007.
2. “Sedimentology and stratigraphy” by Gary Nichols. – 2nd Edition, 2009. ISBN 978-1-4051-3592-4

 Journal papers: 

• Russell, T. 1980. Use of clast shape in determining the sedimentary history of the late Devonian Keepit conglomerate, Australia.  Sedimentary Geology 25, 277-290.
• Nemec, W, Steel, R.J. 1984. Alluvial and coastal conglomerates: their significant features and some comments on gravelly mass-flow deposits. In: Koster EH, Steel RJ (eds) Sedimentology of gravels and conglomerates. Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists Memoir 10, 1–31.

* Book chapters and papers will be available on iLearn

• You will need to be able to access books and journal papers in the library
• You will be exposed to a variety of materials and concepts during the course
• You will use computers to complete your field reports
• You will use binocular microscope to identify minerals collected in the field

Unit Schedule to be provided on iLearn