GEOL 1130: Physical Geology Laboratory
[TCCN—GEOL 1103] [TCCN—GEOL 1403 with UH GEOL1330]
Cr. 1. (0-3). Prerequisite: credit for or concurrent enrollment in GEOL 1330. Weekend field trip may be required; cost to be defrayed by student. Supplementary to lecture; study of minerals, rocks, and maps.

GEOL 1176: Historical Geology Laboratory
[TCCN—GEOL 1104]
Cr. 1. (0-3). Prerequisites: GEOL 1130 and credit for or concurrent enrollment in GEOL 1376. Weekend field trip may be required; cost to be defrayed by student. Supplementary to lecture; study of rocks, fossils, and maps.

GEOL 1197: Selected Topics Geosciences
Cr. 1. (1-0). Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Current topics in geology and geophysics. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

GEOL 1302: Introduction to Global Climate Change
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: MATH 1310 or MATH 1311. Examines how past climate records and models provide a better understanding of possible future climate changes. Greenhouse gases, solar output, Earth’s orbit, and anthropogenic effects.

GEOL 1330: Physical Geology
[TCCN—GEOL 1303] [TCCN—GEOL 1403 with UH GEOL 1130]
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: credit for, placement out of, or concurrent enrollment in MATH 1310 or MATH 1311. Principles of geology; emphasis on surface and internal processes of the earth.

GEOL 1340: Introduction to Earth Systems (formerly GEOL 1440)
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: MATH 1310 or MATH 1311. Earth's dynamic systems emphasizing the interactions among the atmosphere, hydrosphere and lithosphere. Includes the processes by which the earth was formed and continues to be modified as well as how humans affect and are affected by those processes.

GEOL 1350: Introduction to Meteorology
Cr. 3. (3-0). Corequisite: MATH 1310 or MATH 1311. Basic concepts and principles of meteorological processes including clouds and precipitation, local and global circulation, air masses and fronts, and sever weather systems.

GEOL 1376: Historical Geology
[TCCN—GEOL 1304 or GEOL 1404]
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: GEOL 1330, and credit for, placement out of, or concurrent enrollment in MATH 1310 or MATH 1311. Geologic history of the earth; introduction to the uses of geological principles to interpret earth history.

GEOL 1397: Selected Topics - Geosciences
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Current topics in geology and geophysics. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

GEOL 2179: Atmospheric Instrumentation Laboratory
Cr. 1. (0-3). Principles and practice of instrumental operation for acquisition and analysis of atmospheric data.

GEOL 3101: Geologic Field Trip
Cr. 1. (0-3). Prerequisites: GEOL 1330 and consent of instructor. Cost of field trip to be defrayed by student. Five- to seven-day field trip to areas of geologic interest (e.g., Big Bend National Park) taken over Spring Break. May be repeated for credit when content varies.

GEOL 3130: Paleobiology Laboratory
Cr. 1. (0-3). Prerequisite: credit for or concurrent enrollment in GEOL 3330. Undergraduate credit only. Weekend field trips required. Cost to be defrayed by student. Introduction to invertebrate fossils.

GEOL 3145: Structural Geology Laboratory
Cr. 1. (0-3). Prerequisite: credit for or concurrent enrollment in GEOL 3345. Five-day field trip required; expense to be defrayed by student. Techniques for solving problems in structural geology.

GEOL 3150: Principles of Stratigraphy Laboratory
Cr. 1. (0-3). Prerequisite: concurrent enrollment in or credit for GEOL 3350. Field trip required; expense to be defrayed by student. Stratigraphic problem solving.

GEOL 3176: Life of the Geologic Past
Cr. 1. (0-3). Prerequisite: credit for or concurrent enrollment in GEOL 3376. Weekend field trips may be required. Cost to be defrayed by student. The study of fossil groups through time.

GEOL 3177: Introductory Oceanography Laboratory
Cr. 1. (0-3). Prerequisite: credit for or concurrent enrollment in GEOL 3377. One weekend field trip may be required; cost to be defrayed by student. Supplementary to lecture in GEOL 3377. Examination of water and sediment properties.

GEOL 3178: Weather Information
Cr. 1. (0-3). Use of computers to obtain weather information and to make weather forecasts.

GEOL 3301: Dinosaurs, Mars and The Age of the Earth -Applications of the Scientific Method
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: GEOL 1330. Science and the scientific method exemplified by applications to important questions in planetary science.

GEOL 3325: Rocks and Minerals
Cr. 3. (2-4). Prerequisites: GEOL 1130, 1330 and credit for or concurrent enrollment in CHEM 1111, 1331. Field trips may be required; cost to be defrayed by student. Minerals and megascopic petrography of common rocks. Classification, identification, description and interpretation of rocks in hand specimen and in the field.

GEOL 3330: Paleobiology
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: GEOL 1130, 1330, and credit for or concurrent enrollment in GEOL 3130. Principles and methods of interpreting fossils, including functional morphology, systematics, paleoecology, paleoceanography, evolution, biostratigraphy, and paleobiogeography.

GEOL 3331: Environmental Geology
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: GEOL 1130 and GEOL 1330. Geosciences related aspects of the inter-action between people and the physical environment, including 1) philosophy and fundamental principles, 2) hazardous earth processes, 3) human interaction with the environment, 4) minerals, energy and environment, and 5) global change, land use planning, and decision making.

GEOL 3332: Geology of U.S. National Parks and Monuments
Cr. 3. (2-2). Prerequisite: GEOL 1330. Geologic evolution of North America and its landscape as illustrated by selected national parks and monuments of the United States.

GEOL 3333: Earth Resources
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: GEOL 1330. Mineral and energy resources of the planet Earth; their origin and discovery. Environmental impact of their exploitation; future prospects.

GEOL 3334: Earthquakes
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: GEOL 1330. Causes of earthquakes; questions of earthquake prediction, earthquake hazards, and social policy development associated with land use planning and building design.

GEOL 3335: Petrogenesis (formerly 2335)
Cr. 3. (2-3). Prerequisites: CHEM 1112 and CHEM 1332; GEOL 3370, 3235 and 3371. Field trips may be required; cost to be defrayed by student. Nature and origin of igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks.

GEOL 3336: Water in the Environment
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: one of the following: CHEM 1301 or CHEM 1331; GEOL 1330; PHYS 1301 or PHYS 1321; or BIOL 1310 or BIOL 1161/1361. How water affects us and our environment as it moves through the hydrologic cycle. Topics include the role of water in landslides, rivers and flooding, pollution of our water supply, water quality, water as an energy resource, wetlands, and coastal erosion.

GEOL 3338: Environmental Hydrogeology.
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: CHEM 1331, PHYS 1321, MATH 1431, and GEOL 1130 and 1330. Principles of groundwater and surface water flow and interaction with the environment: water quality and pollution.

GEOL 3340: Geologic Field Methods
Cr. 3. (2-3). Prerequisite: GEOL 3370. Five- or seven-day field trip required; expense to be defrayed by student. Interpreting topographic and geologic maps; solving geologic problems using trigonometry and descriptive geometry, field mapping, and report writing.

GEOL 3342: Introduction to Air Pollution
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: GEOL 1350 or 3378. Structure of the atmosphere, anthropogenic and natural emissions of pollutant precursors, meteorological influences on pollutant transport and diffusion, chemical transformations, and health effects of pollution.

GEOL 3345: Structural Geology
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: GEOL 3372, 3340, MATH 1431, PHYS 1301 or 1321, and credit for or concurrent enrollment in GEOL 3145. Properties of earth minerals and their behavior in stress fields; description, classification, and interpretation of geologic structures.

GEOL 3350: Stratigraphy
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: GEOL 3372, 3340, and credit for or concurrent enrollment in 3150. Principles of stratigraphy applied to problems of geometry, composition, and time relations of stratified rocks.

GEOL 3355-3360: Field Geology (summer only, 6 weeks)
Cr. 3 per course. (0-9). Prerequisites: GEOL 3145, 3345, 3150, 3350, and 3340. Concurrent enrollment only. Offered only during the 6 Week-First session (Summer I). Field trips required; cost to be defrayed by student. Geological mapping of topographic and aerial photographic bases, with visits to features of geologic interest.

GEOL 3365: Exploring the Planets
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: one semester of a college level course in the physical sciences and consent of instructor. Survey of the nature and evolution of the solid bodies in the solar system: the inner planets, including earth and its moon, the outer planets and their moons, meteorites, asteroids and comets.

GEOL 3370: Mineralogy
Cr. 3. (2-3). Prerequisites: CHEM 1111 , CHEM 1331, GEOL 1330 , and GEOL 1130. Field trips may be required; cost to be defrayed by student. Identification and description of minerals, including their crystallographic, physical, chemical, and structural properties.

GEOL 3371: Optical Mineralogy (formerly 4135 and 4235)
Cr. 3. (2-3). Prerequisites: CHEM 1111 and 1331, and GEOL 3370. The theory and practice of optical mineralogy in the study of rocks. The use of the petrographic microscope, measurement of optical properties in minerals, introduction to microscopic petrography of the common rocks.

GEOL 3372: Petrography
Cr. 3. (2-3). Prerequisite: GEOL337. Description, classification, and analysis of rocks at macro- and microscopic scales.

GEOL 3373: Igneous and Metamorphic Petrogenesis
Cr. 3. (2-3). Prerequisites: GEOL 3370 and 3372. Description, classification, and analysis of igneous and metamorphic rocks at the macro- and microscopic scales. Study of igneous and metamorphic processes and environments, igneous and metamorphic textures, and geochemical principles.

GEOL 3374: Sedimentary Petrogenesis
Cr. 3. (2-3). Prerequisites: GEOL 3350, 3150, and 3373. Description and interpretation of sediments and sedimentary rocks from outcrop, hand specimens, and microscopic thin sections.

GEOL 3376: Life of the Geologic Past
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: three hours of core approved Biology or Geology. Concurrent enrollment in GEOL 3176 is recommended. Survey of the history of life on earth as interpreted from the fossil record.

GEOL 3377: Oceanography
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: nine hours core-approved BIOL, CHEM, GEOL or PHYS. Introduction to the world’s oceans and oceanic processes.

GEOL 3378: Principles of Atmospheric Science
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: MATH 1310 and one of the following: CHEM 1301, 1331, GEOL 1330, 1340, 1350, PHYS 1301, and 1321. Principles of physics and dynamics of atmosphere: Local , meso, and synoptic scale weather and global general circulation.

GEOL 3380: Physical Meteorology
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: PHYS 1322, MATH 2433 and GEOL 3378. Fundamental physical processes in the atmospheric sciences: thermodynamics, radiative transfer, and cloud microphysics.

GEOL 3381: Micrometeorology
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: PHYS 1322, MATH 2433 and GEOL 3378. Behavior of the atmosphere, radiation, and energy balance near the earth's surface; transfer of heat, mass and momentum; effects on pollutants, microclimate, and land surface on the atmospheric boundary layer.

GEOL 3382: Atmospheric Chemistry
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: GEOL 1340 or GEOL 1350, CHEM 1331, and credit for or concurrent enrollment in CHEM 1332. Emission sources and chemical transformations associated with urban, regional and global scale air pollution, including gas phase and liquid phase reactions, nucleation processes, particulates, and acid deposition.

GEOL 3383: Remote Sensing
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: GEOL 1330, CHEM 1332, MATH 1432, and PHYS 1322, or consent of instructor. Acquisition, processing, and interpretation of multispectral remote sensing data from aircraft and satellites. Applications to geologic, environmental, and land use studies.

GEOL 3396-4396: Senior Research Project
Cr. 3 per semester. Prerequisite: approval of department chair. Directed research project culminating in a departmentally approved report.

GEOL 3399-4399: Senior Honors Thesis
Cr. 3 per semester. Prerequisite: approval of department chair.

GEOL 4197:4397: Selected Topics in Geology
Cr. 1 or 3 per semester or more by concurrent enrollment. (1-0;3-0). Prerequisite: consent of instructor .Current topics in geology and geophysics. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

GEOL 4198:4298: 4398:4498: 4598: Special Problems
Cr. 1-5 per semester or more by concurrent enrollment. Prerequisites: senior standing and approval of department chair.

GEOL 4330: Introduction to Geophysics
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: GEOL 1330, MATH 2433 and PHYS 1322. Principles of seismology, gravity, geomagnetism, radioactivity, electromagnetism and heat flow, and their use in geological interpretation.

GEOL 4331: Introduction to Geographic Information Systems
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: upper division standing in Natural Sciences and Mathematics or consent of instructor. Fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems, databases, geospatial metadata; hands-on experience with GIS and graphics hardware and software.

GEOL 4333: Mesoscale Meteorology
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: GEOL 3342. Physical nature and practical consequences of mesoscale atmospheric phenomena. Mesoscale convective systems, fronts, terrain-forced circulations, observations, analysis, and prediction of mesoscale phenomena.

GEOL 4335: Geophysical Measurements in Laboratory and Field
Cr. 3. (2-3). Prerequisite: GEOL 4330. Acquisition of seismic, gravity, and magnetic data and interpretation. Deals with problems of actual prospecting.

GEOL 4340: The Geophysical Study of the Earth
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: GEOL 4330. Application of geophysical data to the study of various aspects of the earth, including its internal composition, large-scale processes such as plate tectonics, and the distribution of important mineral and energy resources.

GEOL 4341: Dynamic Meteorology
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: MATH 1431 and GEOL 3378. Principles of atmospheric motions, continuity and momentum equations, atmospheric thermodynamics, planetary boundary layer and free tropospheric motions, mesoscale and synoptic systems, general circulation.

GEOL 4358: Introduction to Depositional Models
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: GEOL 3235; GEOL 3350 recommended. Credit may not be received in both GEOL 4358 and GEOL 6358. Field trips required; cost to be defrayed by the student. Recent sedimentary depositional environments as a basis for interpreting the sedimentary rock record.

GEOL 4366: Groundwater Modeling
Cr. 3. Prerequisites: MATH 2433 and COSC 1301 or COSC 1410. Theory of mass transport and numerical solutions used in the simulation of groundwater flow and transport applied to hydrogeological and environmental problems.

GEOL 4370: Seismic Study of the Earth's Structure

Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: GEOL 1330 and PHYS 1322. Acquisition and interpretation of seismic structures of mantle plumes, mid-oceanic ridges, subduction zones, and transgression regions, to infer the property and physical state of the Earth's interior.

GEOL 4378: Introduction to Seismic Prospecting
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: GEOL 4330. Acquisition, processing, reduction, and interpretation of seismic reflection and refraction data as applied to oil and gas exploration.

GEOL 4379: Groundwater and Engineering Geophysics
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: PHYS 1332, MATH 1432, and GEOL 1330, or consent of instructor. Methods of characterizing shallow, subsurface conditions, including the influence of fluids on the physical properties of near-surface materials, high-resolution seismic and gravity methods.

GEOL 4380: Petroleum Seismic Exploration

Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: GEOL 3340 and PHYS 1322. Acquisition, processing, and interpretation of seismic data for the purpose of hydrocarbon exploration.

GEOL 4382: Introduction to Petroleum Geology
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: GEOL 3345 and concurrent enrollment in 3350. Credit may not be applied for both GEOL 4382 and 6381. Fundamentals of petroleum geology; source rock reservoir, and trap studies. Practical exploration methods such as subsurface stratigraphy and mapping.

GEOL 4383: Introduction to Well Logging
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: GEOL 3350 and 3150 and consent of instructor. Introduction to well logging techniques, emphasizing geologic applications.

GEOL 4384: Introduction to Gravity and Magnetic Prospecting
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: MATH 2433 and PHYS 1322. Principles, field techniques, and interpretation procedures involved in exploration with potential field methods.